Nolina palmeri
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Nolina palmeri is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). An English common name is "Palmer's Nolina".
description
Nolina palmeri grows without a trunk and forms clumps 0.5 to 2 m in diameter. The variable, stiff, fibrous, light green to yellow colored leaves are 30 to 60 cm long and 4 to 8 mm wide. The leaf margins are serrated.
The branched inflorescence becomes 0.5 to 1.30 m long. The round capsule fruits , woody when ripe, are 4 to 5 mm in diameter. The brown, spherical seeds are 3 mm in diameter.
Nolina palmeri is frost hardy to minus 10 ° C in Europe . She is hardly known.
Distribution and systematics
Nolina palmeri is distributed at altitudes of 800 to 2200 m in Mexico in the state of Baja California . It is geographically isolated, rarely found in Mexico and in Baja California up to near the snow line. Nolina palmeri grows on stony hills and is associated with Yucca whipplei subsp. eremica .
Nolina palmeri is a member of the Microcarpae section . The appearance is similar to Nolina micrantha , but it has longer leaves.
The first description was in 1879 by Sereno Watson . A synonym is Nolina palmeri var. Brandegeei Trel.
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literature
- Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 27 .