Agave bracteosa

Agave bracteosa

Taxobox
name = "Agave bracteosa"



image_width = 250px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Agavaceae
genus = "Agave"
species = "A. bracteosa"
binomial = "Agave bracteosa"
binomial_authority = S. Wats. ex Engelm. 1882

"Agave bracteosa" is a species of agave sometimes known as "spider agave".

Small among the agaves, its green succulent leaves are long and lanceolate, 50-70 cm long and 3-5 cm at the base, where they are the widest. They have minute serrations along the margins, no teeth, no spine at the end, and have a tendency to curl somewhat, in a fashion reminiscent of the octopus agave "A. vilmoriniana". The inflorescence spike is also short at 1.2-1.7 meters, and its upper third is densely covered with white or pale yellow flowers. The flowers are distinctive in that tepals arise from a disk-shaped receptacle rather than the usual tube. The stamens are quite long.

It is endemic to a small region of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, found on cliffs and rocky slopes from 900 to 1,700 meters.

Gentry defines a group "Choritepalae" that includes "A. bracteosa" along with "Agave ellemeetiana" and "Agave guiengola", and states that the discoid receptacle and unarmed leaves are different enough from other agaves to justify placing "A. bracteosa" and "A. ellemeetiana" into a separate genus, but that characteristics of "A. guiengola" link the group to the rest of "Agave".

References

* Howard Scott Gentry, "Agaves of Continental North America" (University of Arizona Press, 1982) pp. 91-93


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