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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00074631
Occurrence ID:
f509c4dd-d94a-44b1-ab55-12c8c46e5aa1
Taxon:
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Family:
Asparagaceae
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson (June 2019)
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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:
26943
Date:
2012-06-04
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Maricopa County, Sierra Estrella Mountains, Wilderness Area, along Quartz Peak Trail.
33.209448 -112.240249
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 384412E 3675192N
Elevation:
690 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
2272ft
Habitat:
Sonoran Desert scrub, northwest-facing steep rocky slope.
Associated Taxa:
Carnegiea gigantea, Cercidium microphyllum, Encelia farinosa, Trixis californica, Echinocereus engelmannii, Ambrosia deltoidea, Hyptis emoryi, Fouquieria splendens, Lycium berlandieri, Ferocactus emoryi, Mammillaria grahamii, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, C. bigelovii.
Description:
Occasional, single, flowering stalk 4.5 m tall, inflorescence narrowly paniculate with 18 short lateral branches down 1/3 of stalk, flowers with ovary, neck, tube light chartreuse green, tepals, filaments cream-white, anthers yellow, style light chartreuse-cream, tepals erect, not clasping, flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm: tl=50, o=29x5, n=3, tu=5x9.5, fil ins=3.1, fil=38, a=11, dehiscing, outer tepal 14.5x3.5, inner tepal 15.5x4, sty=36.
Reproductive Condition:
flowers
Notes:
Sheet 2 of 3.
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Usage Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Record ID:
f509c4dd-d94a-44b1-ab55-12c8c46e5aa1
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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Phenology (ver 1.0)
reproductive
: At least one reproductive structure of any kind is present (flowers, flower buds, fruits)
flowering
: At least one open flower is present