Agave parryi var. huachucensis (Baker) Little ex L. Benson
Agavaceae
Wendy C. Hodgson
30808
2016-06-14
Andrew Salywon, Josiah Austin, Chris Roll
USA, Arizona, Cochise County, On property of Josiah Austin, northwest of Chiricahua National Monument.
32.122907 -109.51772
12S 639829E 3555021N
1497 meters
4910 ft
Grassland-Prosopis-Gutierrezia association, sandy-stony small hill, southwest-facing gentle slope.
Prosopis velutina, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Yucca elata var. elata, Opuntia engelmannii, Hilaria mutica, Eragrostis lehmanniana, Baccharis pteronoides, Ephedra, Agave parryi var. huachucensis X Agave palmeri.
Local, large old clone, rosette 1 m x 1 m, leaves green flushed with maroon marginally and apically, flower stalk 90 mm in diameter at 1-3/4 m high, green with maroon vertical striations, with 30+ lateral branches down 2/3 of stalk, these ascending, pedicels 14 mm long, maroon basally, chartreuse distally, flowers from top 1/10 of stalk, with ovary, neck, tube chartreuse green, ovary darker, tepal lobes golden yellow, brown tipped on outer tepals, filaments, anthers, style chartreuse-yellow; tepals erect-ascending, neck constricted, angled, tepals soon wilting; flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm, pre-dehiscent? empty?: tl=61, o=29(l)x10(w), n=7.5, tu=6(l)x16(w), fil ins=6,6.3, fil=51, a=22, outer tepal=21x6(base), 2(mid), inner tepal=19x7(base), 2(mid), sty=70; tl=60, o=29(l)x10(w), n=7, tu=6(l)x16.5(w), fil ins=7,6, fil=51, a=21, outer tepal=21x6(base), 1.8(mid), inner tepal=18x6(base), 1.8(mid), sty=72.