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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00074315
Occurrence ID:
c45d7038-4a1b-408c-b3a8-076b7ce58695
Taxon:
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Family:
Asparagaceae
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson (June 2019)
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Determination History
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:
26927
Date:
2012-05-18
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon, Liz Slauson, Ries Lindley, John Scheuring, John Wiens
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Pima County, Base of the eastern side of the Waterman Mountains, Ironwood Forest National Monument
32.354383 -111.456251
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 457071E 3579809N
Elevation:
740 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
2419ft
Habitat:
Sonoran Desert scrub on bajada slopes
Substrate:
granitic
Associated Taxa:
Fouquieria splendens, Olneya tesota, Cercidium microphyllum, Ambrosia dumosa, Opuntia engelmannii engelmannii, Echinocereus engelmannii nicholii, Ferocactus wislizenii, Calliandra eriophylla, Krameria erecta.
Description:
Clone of several pups, flower stalk ca 2-1/2 m tall with 8 umbels, tepals erect-ascending, not or very little clasping, ovary, neck very light chartreuse, tube light chartreuse-light-yellow, tepals light yellow to yellow, outer tepals slightly brown tipped, filaments light yellow, anthers light yellow, very little pollen, style light yellow; flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm: tl-52, o=26x6.75, n=6, tu=7x , fil ins=3.5, 3.7, fil=43, a=15, outer tep=14x6(base), 4(mid), inner tep 13x5(base), 3(mid), sty=43; tl=49, o=25x5.8, n=3.8, tu=6.2x13, fil ins=4.1, 3.5, fil=42, a=16, beginning dehiscence, very little pollen, outer tep=13x5(base), 4(mid), inner tep=12x4(base), 2(mid), sty=41.
Reproductive Condition:
flowers
Notes:
Sheet 2 of 2; flowers suggestive of A. chrysantha. Photo.
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CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Record ID:
c45d7038-4a1b-408c-b3a8-076b7ce58695
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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Phenology (ver 1.0)
reproductive
: At least one reproductive structure of any kind is present (flowers, flower buds, fruits)
flowering
: At least one open flower is present