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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00085297
Occurrence ID:
a3a709b3-8669-43b6-baba-fb91bd32ae47
Taxon:
Agave chrysantha
Peebles
Identification Qualifier:
cf.
Family:
Agavaceae
Collector:
Wendy C. Hodgson
Number:
30885
Date:
2016-07-15
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon, Eirini Pajak, Nikita Kyznetsov
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Yavapai County, Tonto National Forest, along FSR 24, west of Camp Creek, northwest of Sears Kay ruin south of Rackensack Canyon.
33.895232 -111.818464
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 424323E 3750841N
Elevation:
1056 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
3466 ft
Habitat:
Arizona Upland Sonoran Desert scrub transition, east-facing steep stony/rocky slope, burned in past.
Substrate:
Basalt.
Associated Taxa:
Simmondsia chinensis, Acacia greggii, Krameria erecta, Cercidium floridum, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Yucca baccata, Opuntia phaeacantha, Opuntia engelmannii, Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, Sphaeralcea ambigua, Eriogonum wrightii, Echinocereus engelmannii, Bromus rubens, Aristida purpurea.
Description:
Occasional, local, most southern population along road, single, leaves dried, brown, flower stalk ca 3-2/3 m tall, 36 mm in diameter at 1-3/4 m up from ground, inflorescence narrowly paniculate, lateral branches 14, ascending, down 2/5 of stalk, flowers with ovary, neck chartreuse, tube cream-yellow-light cream-chartreuse, tepal lobes yellow, darker towards apices, outer tepal lobes with brown apices, inner tepal lobe keel cream-yellow-light chartreuse, filaments, anthers, style light yellow to yellow, tepals clasping, ovary smooth, neck, tube furrowed; flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm, beginning anthesis: tl=32, o=14x6, n=2.4, tu=9hx10w, fil ins=4.25, 4.5, 6, fil=27, a=13, outer tepal lobe 9x5(base), 3.25(mid), inner tepal lobe 7.5x4.5(base), 3(mid), sty=22; tl=34, o=16x6, n=2.3, tu=8.25hx8.5w, fil ins=4, 5, fil=26, a=15, outer tepal lobe 12x5.5(base), 3(mid), inner tepal lobe 10x5(base), 3.5(mid), sty=24.
Reproductive Condition:
flowers
Notes:
Sheet 3 of 3.
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Usage Rights:
CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Record ID:
a3a709b3-8669-43b6-baba-fb91bd32ae47
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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