Taxon: Yucca baccata x madrensis Gentry
Family: Agavaceae

Collector: Elizabeth Makings   1715   

Date: 13 May 2004

Locality: USA, Arizona, Cochise County, Upper San Pedro valley; 250 m north of Hereford Rd., ~ 1 mile west of San Pedro

31.4402  -110.119

Elevation: 1292 meters

Verbatim Elevation: 4240ft

Habitat: Chihuahuan desertscrub of Acacia, subshrubs, and mixed grasses, limey soils

Associated Species: Acacia neovernicosa, Zinnia acerosa, Thymophylla acerosa, Ephedra trifurca, Tequilia canescens, Aristida purpurea, Muhlenbergia porteri, Tridena muticus, Dalea formosa, Machaeranthera pinnatifida

Description: Arborescent rosette herb, large specimen ~2.5 m tall and branching, other plants in the area lower and unbranched; leaves light green underneath; inflorescence exerted from leaves ca. >1m, flowers yellow-cream (mostly dried up and fallen around plant); rare in SPRNCA

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