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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00074313
Occurrence ID:
cdaf96c9-c461-470a-9da6-4d7c6de20cac
Taxon:
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Family:
Asparagaceae
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson (June 2019)
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Determination History
Agave deserti subsp. simplex
Gentry
Determiner:
unknown
Date:
s.d.
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson
Date:
June 2019
Collector:
Wendy C. Hodgson
Number:
26928
Date:
2012-05-18
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon, Liz Slauson, Ries Lindley, John Scheuring, John Wiens
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Pima County, Base of the eastern side of the Waterman Mountains, Ironwood Forest National Monument
32.352858 -111.454108
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 457272E 3579639N
Elevation:
730 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
2397ft
Habitat:
Sonoran Desert scrub on bajada slopes
Substrate:
granitic
Associated Taxa:
Fouquieria splendens, Olneya tesota, Carnegiea gigantea, Cercidium microphyllum, Ambrosia deltoidea, Opuntia engelmannii engelmannii, Larrea tridentata, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa.
Description:
Local, occasional, with one pup, flower stalk ca 4 m tall, very narrow, with 15 umbels, these ascending, tepals erect, clasping, ovary, neck light chartreuse-yellow, tube light chartreuse-yellow, tepals dark yellow to golden yellow, outer tepals slightly brown tipped, filaments yellow, anthers yellow, style light yellow-light chartreuse; flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm: tl-50, o=24x6, n=5, tu=8.7x14.5, fil ins=3.8, 4.5, fil=50, a=17, very little pollen, outer tep=15x7.5(base), 5.5(mid), inner tep 13x7(base), 3.7(mid), sty=49; tl=47, o=20x5, n=3.8, tu=7.5x14.5, fil ins=4, 4.2, fil=47, a=16, beginning dehiscence, some pollen, outer tep=15x7(base), 5.5(mid), inner tep=14x6.5(base), 4.5(mid), sty=29.
Notes:
Sheet 2 of 2; flowers suggestive of A. chrysantha. Photos only.
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Usage Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Record ID:
cdaf96c9-c461-470a-9da6-4d7c6de20cac
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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