View source for Agave asperrima var. asperrima

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|accepted_name=Agave asperrima var. asperrima
|accepted_authority=unknown
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|common_names=Rough agave;maguey cenizo
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Agave caeciliana
|authority=A. Berger
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|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Agave;Agave asperrima;Agave asperrima var. asperrima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Agavaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Agave]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Agave asperrima]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Agave asperrima var. asperrima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 452
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>acaulescent, frequently suckering; rosettes not cespitose, 7–10 × 15–20 dm. <b>Leaves</b> spreading to recurved and mostly reflexed, 60–110 × 12–18 cm; blade light green to grayish, without bud-prints, lanceolate, scabrous, rigid, adaxially plane and deeply guttered from mid blade to base, abaxially convex; margins straight, toothed, teeth single, usually deflexed along lower leaf edge, 8–15 mm, 1 cm apart; apical spine dark brown to blackish, subulate to acicular, 3–6 cm. <b>Scape</b> 4–7 m. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, not bulbiferous; bracts persistent, triangular, 3–10 cm; lateral branches 8–14, slightly ascending, comprising distal 1/3 of inflorescence, longer than 10 cm. <b>Flowers</b> 14–18 per cluster, erect, 6–8 cm; perianth yellow, tube cylindric, 13–18 × 14–16 mm, limb lobes erect, subequal, 18–26 mm; stamens long-exserted; filaments inserted just above mid perianth tube, erect, yellow, 5–6.5 cm; anthers yellow, 24–30 mm; ovary 3–4 cm, neck constricted, 4–6 mm. <b>Capsules</b> short-pedicellate, oblong, 4–5 cm, apex beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 6–7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 174.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly, often calcareous places in desert scrub
|elevation=500–1500(–1900) m
|distribution=Tex.;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>M. S. Cave (1964) reported chromosome counts of n = 74–93; H. S. Gentry (1982) stated that only one of Cave’s counts applied to <i></i></i>var.<i><i> asperrima</i> and he gave it as n = 87.</p>
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name=Agave asperrima var. asperrima
|author=
|authority=unknown
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Agave caeciliana
|basionyms=
|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly, often calcareous places in desert scrub
|elevation=500–1500(–1900) m
|distribution=Tex.;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
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|genus=Agave
|species=Agave asperrima
|variety=Agave asperrima var. asperrima
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