Taxon: Yucca elata var. verdiensis (McKelvey) Reveal
Family: Agavaceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   25166   

Date: 31 May 2010

Locality: USA, Arizona, Yavapai County, Camp Verde, along General Crook Trail highway east of Interstate 17, 12S 418448 E, 3824296 N NAD 83/84

34.557167  -111.888928

Verbatim Coordinates: UTM: 3824296 418448 12S

Elevation: 1014 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 3330ft.

Habitat: Juniper high desert scrub

Associated Species: Opuntia phaeacantha, Krameria erecta, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Acacia greggii, Encelia frutescens, Stephanomeria pauciflora, Echinocereus fasciculatus.

Description: Locally common, plants with 4 stems, trunk 1/6 m high, stalk 2 m high, inflorescence down 1/5 of stalk, broadly paniculate, widest just below middle, racemose above; flowers lax, thin, not firm, 49(l) x 40(w) mm, fusion of tepal bases 3 mm high, outer tepal 36 x 15 mm, cream-white with light green midstripe, inner tepal 41 x 21 mm, filaments 13.5 + 7 mm, white, slight bend, anthers yellow, ovary 16 mm, light green-chartreuse, style/stigma 8 mm, cream-white.

Notes: sheet 2 of 2.

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For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Wendy C. Hodgson (whodgson@dbg.org)

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