Yucca madrensis
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Yucca madrensis ( trivial names in other languages: Sierra Madre Yucca, Yucca Soco) is a species of the genus of yucca ( Yucca ) in the family of asparagaceae (Asparagaceae). This species is one of the rarest of the genus.
description
Yucca madrensis grows solitary and forms a short trunk 0.5 to 0.8 meters high. The variable, green, blue-gray leaves are 50 to 80 cm long and 2 to 3 cm wide.
The branched, short inflorescence that begins in the leaves is 0.5 to 1 meter in size.
distribution
Yucca madrensis is distributed in Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico , in the state of Chihuahua in woodlands on stony, steep slopes at altitudes between 1450 and 2250 meters. This species often grows in association with various types of cacti .
Systematics
She is a representative of the Section Yucca series Yucca , but geographically isolated. Yucca madrensis is related to Yucca schotti . The basis is HS Gentrys Type with the number 21209, September 9, 1965 (Eng. Lf. & Old dried inflorescencce) number 2557499. US
The botanical name was chosen after the Sierra Madre in Mexico, the locality of Yucca madrensis .
The first description by Howard Scott Gentry under the name Yucca madrensis was published in 1972.
photos
Yucca madrensis in woodland in Mexico
Yucca madrensis on a steep slope in Mexico
Single references
- ^ Howard Scott Gentry: The Agave Family in Sonora . US Department of Agriculture, 1972, p. 159.
literature
- Yucca madrensis . Fritz Hochstätter (Ed.): Yucca (Agavaceae) . Volume 3 Mexico and Baja California, Selbstverlag, 2004, pp. 35–36, photo material pp. 128–130, first description pp. 232–235, p. 274, ISBN 3-00-013124-8 .
