Yucca treculeana

Yucca treculeana
1860 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Yucca
Species: Y. treculeana
Binomial name
Yucca treculeana
Carrière
Synonyms[2]
  • Sarcoyucca treculeana (Carrière) Linding.
  • Yucca agavoides Carrière
  • Yucca argospatha Verl.
  • Yucca aspera Regel
  • Yucca baccata var. australis Engelm.
  • Yucca canaliculata Hook.
  • Yucca canaliculata var. pendula K. Koch
  • Yucca contorta Carrière
  • Yucca cornuta Baker
  • Yucca crassifila Engelm.
  • Yucca longifolia Buckley, nom. illeg.
  • Yucca recurvata Carrière
  • Yucca revoluta Carrière
  • Yucca spinosa auct non Kunth
  • Yucca treculeana var. canaliculata Trel.
  • Yucca treculeana var. glauca Sprenger
  • Yucca treculeana var. succulenta McKelvey
  • Yucca undulata K.Koch

Yucca treculeana Carrière[3] is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Texas, New Mexico and Coahuila.[4] Common names include Spanish dagger, Spanish bayonet and Don Quixote's lace.

Yucca treculeana is a large, tree-like species up to 10 m (33 feet) tall, often branching above the ground. Leaves are up to 128 cm (50 inches) long. Flowers are cream-colored, sometimes tinged with purple. Fruits are fleshy and succulent, up to 19 cm (7.5 inches) long. [5][6]

Some sources list this species as "Yucca spinosa Kunth." However, the type specimen for this name at the herbarium in Berlin appears to be Dasylirion sp., thus rendering the name a "nomen confusum."[7]

References

  1. ↑ Yucca treculeana (as Yucca canaliculata) Bot. Mag. 86. t. 5201. 1860.
  2. ↑ Tropicos Yucca treculeana
  3. ↑ Carrière, Rev. Hort. IV, 7: 580 1858.
  4. ↑ Encyclopedia of Life map
  5. ↑ http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242102078
  6. ↑ McKelvey, S. D. 1938–1947. Yuccas of the Southwestern United States. 2 vols. Jamaica Plain.
  7. ↑ Digital specimen images at the Herbarium Berolinense
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