Biology:Yucca treculeana
Yucca treculeana | |
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1860 illustration[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Asparagaceae |
Subfamily: | Agavoideae |
Genus: | Yucca |
Species: | Y. treculeana
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Binomial name | |
Yucca treculeana Carrière
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Synonyms[3] | |
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Yucca treculeana Carrière[4] is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Texas , New Mexico and Coahuila.[5] Common names include Spanish dagger, Spanish bayonet and Don Quixote's lance.
Yucca treculeana is a large, tree-like species up to 10 m (33 feet) tall, often branching above the ground. Leaves are up to 128 cm (50 inches) long. Flowers are cream-colored, sometimes tinged with purple. Fruits are fleshy and succulent, up to 19 cm (7.5 inches) long.[6][7]
In the last three generations, it has experienced a population decline of 30 percent, attributable due to habitat loss.[2]
Some sources list this species as "Yucca spinosa Kunth." However, the type specimen for this name at the herbarium in Berlin appears to be Dasylirion sp., thus rendering the name a "nomen confusum."[8]
References
- ↑ Yucca treculeana (as Yucca canaliculata) Bot. Mag. 86. t. 5201. 1860.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hernández Sandoval, L.; Clary, K.; González-Elizondo, M.; Zamudio, S.; Matías-Palafox, M.; Sánchez, E.; Hernández-Martínez, M. (2020). "Yucca treculeana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T117428743A117470212. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T117428743A117470212.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/117428743/117470212. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ Tropicos Yucca treculeana
- ↑ Carrière, Rev. Hort. IV, 7: 580 1858.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Life map
- ↑ "Yucca treculeana in Flora of North America @". Efloras.org. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242102078. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
- ↑ McKelvey, S. D. 1938–1947. Yuccas of the Southwestern United States. 2 vols. Jamaica Plain.
- ↑ Digital specimen images at the Herbarium Berolinense
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