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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00074629
Occurrence ID:
55a25c1a-30f2-485f-8dd4-87146da6f07f
Taxon:
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Family:
Asparagaceae
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson (June 2019)
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Agave deserti subsp. simplex
Gentry
Determiner:
unknown
Date:
s.d.
Agave simplex
(Gentry) Salywon & Hodgson
Determiner:
Andrew Salywon & Wendy Hodgson
Date:
June 2019
Collector:
Wendy C. Hodgson
Number:
26944
Date:
2012-06-04
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Maricopa County, Sierra Estrella Mountains, Wilderness Area, along Quartz Peak Trail.
33.209355 -112.240516
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 384387E 3675182N
Elevation:
690 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
2268ft
Habitat:
Sonoran Desert scrub, northwest-facing steep rocky slope.
Associated Taxa:
Carnegiea gigantea, Cercidium microphyllum, Encelia farinosa, Trixis californica, Echinocereus engelmannii, Ambrosia deltoidea, Hyptis emoryi, Fouquieria splendens, Lycium berlandieri, Ferocactus emoryi, Mammillaria grahamii, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, C. bigelovii.
Description:
Occasional, single, inflorescence narrowly paniculate with 15 short lateral branches down 1/3 of stalk, flowers with ovary, neck, tube light chartreuse green, tepals, filaments cream-white becoming light chartreuse distally, anthers yellow, style light chartreuse-cream, tepals erect, not clasping, flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm: tl=43, o=20x5.75, n=5.5, tu=7.3x12, slightly bulging, fil ins=4, fil=47, a=16, pre-dehiscent, outer tepal 14x5, inner tepal 15x4, sty=22.
Notes:
sheet 3 of 3. Photos only.
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Usage Rights:
CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Record ID:
55a25c1a-30f2-485f-8dd4-87146da6f07f
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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