Nolina parviflora

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Nolina parviflora
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Nolina parviflora

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Nolinoideae
Genre : Nolina
Type : Nolina parviflora
Scientific name
Nolina parviflora
( Kunth ) Hemsl.

Nolina parviflora is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). English common names are "Beargrass Tree Nolina" and "Small Flowered Beargrass Tree".

description

Nolina parviflora is tree-shaped with heights of 2 to 5 m. It forms rosettes in the upper half. The variable, stiff, light green leaves are 30 to 60 cm long and 15 to 25 mm wide. The leaf margins are finely serrated.

The inflorescence is 0.8 to 1.2 m high with numerous short, variable, ramifications. The white to cream colored flowers are 1.5 mm long and in diameter. The flowering period extends from April to June.

The round capsule fruits , woody when ripe, are 8 to 12 mm long and in diameter. The brown, spherical to elongated seeds are 3 to 4 mm in diameter.

Nolina parviflora is to minus 10 ° C frost-hardy . She is hardly known.

Distribution and systematics

Nolina parviflora is rarely found in Mexico in Querétaro , Zacatecas and Veracruz at altitudes of 2000 to 3000 m. It is associated with Yucca periculosa and Dasylirion acrotriche .

Nolina parviflora is a member of the Arborescentes section . Characteristic are the narrow inflorescences with the dense, short branches and the numerous flowers in contrast to Nolina parryi which develops an enormously wide inflorescence with irregular branches.

It was first described as Cordyline parviflora in 1816 by Karl Sigismund Kunth . William Botting Hemsley placed them in the genus Nolina in 1884 . A synonym is Beaucarnea parviflora (Kunth) Baker .

proof

literature

  • Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 35-36 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nova Genera et Species Plantarum , Volume 1, 1816, p. 269 Online.
  2. ↑ Biologia Centrali-Americani; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America , Volume 3, 1884, p. 372 online
  3. ↑ John Gilbert Baker: On Dasylirion and Beaucarnea . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign , Volume 10, London 1872, p. 328.

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