Agave salmiana

Agave salmiana
A. salmiana var. ferox
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Agave
Species: A. salmiana
Binomial name
Agave salmiana
Otto ex Salm-Dyck[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Agave atrovirens var. salmiana (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Maire & Weiller
  • Agave atrovirens var. sigmatophylla A. Berger
  • Agave chinensis F.P.Sm.
  • Agave coarctata Jacobi
  • Agave cochlearis Jacobi
  • Agave compluviata Trel.
  • Agave dyckii H.Jacobsen
  • Agave jacobiana Salm-Dyck
  • Agave lehmannii Jacobi
  • Agave mitraeformis Jacobi
  • Agave quiotifera Trel. ex Ochot.
  • Agave salmiana var. cochlearis (Jacobi) A.Terracc.
  • Agave tehuacanensis Karw. ex Salm-Dyck
  • Agave whitackeri H.Jacobsen

Agave salmiana is a species of a species of succulent plants native to central and southern Mexico. It is also reportedly naturalized in South Africa and in the Canary Islands.[4][5]

The variety A. salmiana var. ferox (K.Koch) Gentry[1] is often encountered in cultivation. The epithet ferox is due to the hard and long (up to 8 cm) spines.

References

  1. 1 2 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2011-09-26, search for "Agave salmiana"
  2. ↑ Tropicos Agave salmiana
  3. ↑ The Plant List, Agave salmiana
  4. ↑ Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert. Bonplandia 7: 88. 1859.
  5. ↑ Howard Scott Gentry, Agaves of Continental North America (University of Arizona Press, 1982) pp. 183-1850
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