View source for Agave shawii var. shawii

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|common_names=Shaw agave
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|name=Agave orcuttiana
|authority=Trelease
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|name=Agave pachyacantha
|authority=Trelease
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|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Agave;Agave shawii;Agave shawii var. shawii
|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 shawii]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Agave shawii var. shawii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
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|treatment_page=page 455
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>short-stemmed, budding from leaf axils, forming fragmented supine clones or sometimes single rosettes, trunks erect to decumbent, shorter than 2 m; rosettes solitary or cespitose, 0.8–20 × 10–25 dm. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, 20–50 × 8–20 cm; blade glossy light to dark green, not cross-zoned, narrowly ovate, rigid, adaxially plane to slightly hollowed at least toward apex, abaxially convex; margins straight, armed, teeth single, well defined, mostly 5–6 mm, 1–2+ cm apart; apical spine dark reddish brown to gray, acicular, 2–4 cm. <b>Scape</b> 2–4 m. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, not bulbiferous; bracts persistent, lanceolate to triangular, 10–25 cm; lateral branches 8–14, horizontal to ascending, comprising distal 1/4–1/2 of inflorescence, longer than 10 cm. <b>Flowers</b> 35–75 per cluster, erect, 6–10 cm; perianth yellow to reddish, especially upon withering, tube broadly funnelform, 12–19 × 15–22 mm, limb lobes erect, unequal, 17–40 mm; stamens long-exserted; filaments inserted near mid perianth tube, erect, yellow, 4.3–7 cm; anthers yellow, 20–35 mm; ovary 3–5 cm, neck slightly constricted, 6–15 mm. <b>Capsules</b> short-pedicellate, obovoid to oblong, 5.5–7 cm, apex short- to long-beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 4–7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering winter–mid spring.
|habitat=Coastal bluffs with coastal sage scrub and chaparral
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Agave shawii</i> was abundant in southern California at the beginning of the twentieth century. Since then, unrestricted collecting and habitat destruction reduced the populations significantly. By 1969 the species was believed to occur in California only within the U.S. Navy area at Point Loma (Moran 16707, DES, SD). At present, native populations are known only from Border Fields State Park north of Tijuana, although plants have been introduced at other locales.</p>
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name=Agave shawii var. shawii
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|synonyms=Agave orcuttiana;Agave pachyacantha
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|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering winter–mid spring.
|habitat=Coastal bluffs with coastal sage scrub and chaparral
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
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|genus=Agave
|species=Agave shawii
|variety=Agave shawii var. shawii
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