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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)
Catalog #:
DES00079036
Occurrence ID:
5b8e7b30-9028-4491-839b-220eeb82a277
Taxon:
Agave palmeri
Engelm.
Identification Qualifier:
cf.
Family:
Agavaceae
Collector:
Wendy C. Hodgson
Number:
25345
Date:
2009-09-11
Additional Collectors:
Andrew Salywon
Locality:
USA, Arizona, Graham County, Along Klondyke Road, south side, overlooking Hackberry Draw and just south of Cottonwood Canyon.
32.831237 -110.140838
Verbatim Coordinates:
12S 580413E 3632905N
Elevation:
1408 meters
Verbatim Elevation:
4620 ft
Habitat:
Stony, southeast-facing slope overlooking drainage.
Substrate:
Granitic-rhyolite?
Associated Taxa:
Opuntia engelmannii, Opuntia phaeacantha, Ferocactus wislizeni, Prosopis velutina, Nolina microcarpa, Yucca baccata, Cylindropuntia spinosior, Acacia constricta, Calliandra eriophylla, Gutierrezia sarothrae, Echinocereus fendleri.
Description:
Locally frequent, plant with offsets, stalk ca 14 ft tall, with ca 14 lateral branches, down 55% of stalk, flowers with ovary, neck, tube light lime green, filaments maroon, anthers yellow, tepal lobes light yellow-green with brown tips, clasping, slender, style cream-yellow, becoming maroon distally, stigma yellow; flower measurements after Gentry (1982) in mm: tl=65, o=30x8, n=5, tu=15(h)x14(w), fil ins=7.5, 9, fil=38, a=15 (lots of pollen), outer tep=12x5, inner tepal 10x5, sty=28.
Reproductive Condition:
flowers
Notes:
Sheet III/III. Potential archaeological farmed site. Photos.
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Usage Rights:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Record ID:
5b8e7b30-9028-4491-839b-220eeb82a277
For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (
asalywon@dbg.org
)
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Phenology (ver 1.0)
reproductive
: At least one reproductive structure of any kind is present (flowers, flower buds, fruits)
flowering
: At least one open flower is present