Taxon: Agave pelona Gentry
Family: Asparagaceae

Collector: Howard Scott Gentry   19898   

Date: 04 July 1963

Locality: Mexico, Sonora, Cerro Quituni, ca. 26 miles S of Caborca

Elevation: 460-910 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 1500 - 3000ft

Habitat: Arid limestone mt.

Description: Single, multi-lved. rosettes with toothless, white-margined lvs; lvs. purplish towards tip; long white spine; spikes 2-2.5 m tall; buds turning & opening with bright red tepals recurving, priunose pink inside; fr., anthers & pistil red.

Phenology: fruits

Notes: Publication: USDA Agric. Handb. 399 (Agave Fam. Sonora): 76, fig. 22, 23. 1972

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