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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium

(DES)

Taxon: Agave americana var. americana L.
Family: Agavaceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   18234   

Date: 2004-06-17

Locality: Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Cultivated at Desert Botanical Garden, 33 deg 27'33'' N, 111 deg 56'35'' W, ca 1200 feet, accession number 1967 9016 01, originally collected by Howard S. Gentry 20455, 21 September 1933, from Tamasopa, Rio Verde District, ''cultivated, medium-large, light pruinose/glaucous maguey with erect to out-curving narrowly lanceolate, long leaves.''

21.920091  -99.391926 +-2000m.

Description: Plants suckering, leaves large, green,thin except at base, undulate, inflorescence large paniculate, flowers with ovary, neck, tube green, tepals green becoming yellow-cream, dried at post anthesis, filaments and style cream-light green; measurements after Gentry (1982), in mm, post-anthesis: tl=76, o=34x11, n=7, tu=19x14(w), fil ins=15, fil= ca 45, a= , tep=22x4,3 (outer), 22x3 (inner), sty=87.

Notes: A 4-part specimen, each with same acc.#.; Cultivated or Captive

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Record ID: 3a97cafd-9f1a-457b-af9c-e8c33e79e389

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (asalywon@dbg.org)

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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)