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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00082656
Occurrence ID:
dc36d0c5-7123-4f68-a96d-f9a8b5fa4624
Taxon:
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Family:
Asparagaceae
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson (June 2019)
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Agave deserti var. simplex
(Gentry) W.C.Hodgs. & Reveal
Determiner:
unknown
Date:
s.d.
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson
Date:
June 2019
Collector:
Wendy C. Hodgson
Number:
24595
Date:
2010-03-15
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Yuma County, Mohawk Mountains, west side, south of Interstate 8.
32.70612 -113.73994
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 243160E 3622028N
Elevation:
278 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
912 ft
Habitat:
Lower Colorado River Valley subdivision, Sonoran Desert desert scrub, west-facing rocky slope, in a dry drainage.
Substrate:
Granite.
Associated Taxa:
Cercidium microphyllum, Carnegiea gigantea, Larrea tridentata, Encelia farinosa, Cylindropuntia bigelovii, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, Hyptis emoryi, Plantago, Cryptantha, Lupinus arizonicus, Ambrosia dumosa, Ambrosia ilicifolia.
Description:
Local, several young plants within 30 feet of this small clone(?), more frequent on steeper rocky slope ca 50 m to southeast, another plant in clone past flowered, the stalk 5 m tall, lateral branches 17.
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CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Record ID:
dc36d0c5-7123-4f68-a96d-f9a8b5fa4624
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
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