Taxon: Yucca rigida Standley
Family: Agavaceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   21556   

Date: 30 March 2007

Locality: Mexico, Durango, Cultivated at Desert Botanical Garden, 33 deg 27min33 sec N, 111 deg 56min35sec W, accession number 1965 7813 0102; grown from seed, seed originally collected 1 January 1958 from 100 miles NE of Durango; seedlings grown 9 April 1965.

Description: Arborescent, branched above, leaves silvery green, inflorescence a panicle, flowers with tepals plastic-leathery, easily breakable, outer tepals cream with light green stripes, inner tepals cream, lighter green midstripes, filaments cream-light green, style green, tip becoming cream-yellow; tepals cupped with filaments and anthers robust and turgid, tepals splayed with filaments and anthers wrinkled and thin (post-anthesis); tl=49.4 mm, outer tepal=44.7x14 mm, inner tepal 46.7 x 17.6 mm, fil=6.5 mm, sty+stig=17+7 x 5.5 mm.

Notes: sheet 2 of 2.

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