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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00079174
Occurrence ID:
7fc2e53d-78d3-4269-b0cd-9ffbb0f4675d
Taxon:
Agave palmeri
Engelm.
Family:
Agavaceae
Collector:
Wendy C. Hodgson
Number:
30523
Date:
2015-07-09
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Santa Cruz County, Mustang Mountains, north flanks, Rain Valley, just south of highway 82 and power line.
31.699317 -110.46785
Verbatim Coordinates:
31° 41.959' N 110° 28.071' W
Elevation:
1527 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
5010 ft
Habitat:
Open overgrazed shrub-grassland dominated by Fouquieria splendens on north-facing gentle slope.
Substrate:
Stony alluvium.
Associated Taxa:
Fouquieria splendens, Aloysia wrightii, Sporobolus, Cylindropuntia spinosior, Prosopis velutina, Dasylirion wheeleri, Nolina microcarpa, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Solanum elaeagnifolium, Isocoma tenuisecta, Mortonia scabrella.
Description:
Plants frequent, this one with huge cabeza, few plants in clone, leaves green with maroon flush distally, flower stalk ca 8 m tall, 88 mm in diameter at eye level, inflorescence broadly paniculate, with 27 lateral branches perpendicular to stalk, down 3/5 of stalk; flower with ovary, neck, tube light chartreuse green(-cream), outer lobes cream with slight maroon flush, with conspicuous very brown, roughened tip, inner tepals cream with slight maroon flush, filaments light yellow, anthers yellow, style cream-white; flowers thick, ovary somewhat angled, tepals clasping; measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm: tl=48, o=22x8.25, n=2, tu=10(h)x11.5(w), outer tep=11(l)x7.5(w, base), 5(mid), inner tep=12x6.5(w, base), 4(mid), fil ins=4, 4.7, fil=52, a=15, beginning dehiscence, sty=48; tl=49, o=22.5x8, n=3, tu=10(h)x15(w), outer tep=12(l)x7(w, base), 5(mid), inner tep=11x5(w, base), 3.75(mid), fil ins=5, fil=50, a=15, beginning dehiscence, sty=59.
Reproductive Condition:
flowers
Notes:
Sheet 3 of 4.
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Usage Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Record ID:
7fc2e53d-78d3-4269-b0cd-9ffbb0f4675d
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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Current Record
Wendy C. Hodgson 30523
2015-07-09
Catalog #:
DES00079174
GUID:
7fc2e53d-78d3-4269-b0cd-9ffbb0f4675d
Latest Identification:
Agave palmeri
Engelm.
Specimen Duplicates
Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Wendy C. Hodgson 30523
2015-07-09
Catalog #:
DES00079172
Latest Identification:
Agave palmeri
Engelm.
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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Wendy C. Hodgson 30523
2015-07-09
Catalog #:
DES00079173
Latest Identification:
Agave palmeri
Engelm.
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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Wendy C. Hodgson 30523
2015-07-09
Catalog #:
DES00079175
Latest Identification:
Agave palmeri
Engelm.
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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