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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium

(DES)

Taxon: Yucca elata var. verdiensis (McKelvey) Reveal
Family: Agavaceae

Collector: Wendy C. Hodgson   25206   

Date: 2010-06-11

Locality: USA, Arizona, Yavapai County, Just southeast of Prescott Valley off highway 69, near milepost 284-285, 12S 383963 E, 3825598 N NAD 83/84

34.565594  -112.264928

Verbatim Coordinates: 34d 33m 56.14s N; 112d 15m 53.74s W; UTM: 382559838396312S

Elevation: 1438 meters Verbatim Elevation: 4720ft.

Habitat: Juniper-Purshia, disturbed

Associated Species: Juniperus, Gaillardia pulchella, Purshia stansburiana, Convolvulus arvense, Heterotheca subaxillaris.

Description: Locally common, most with little or no trunks, this one with stems 3, leaves narrow to relatively wide in population, all with inflorescence racemose, most down to near or at tip of leaves, this one with stalk 1-2/3 m tall, inflorescence down to near tip of leaves (variable on same plant), flower 44(l) x 36(w) mm, fusion of tepal bases 4 mm high, outer tepal 40 x 17 mm, cream-white with light green center, margins flushed with light purple, inner tepal 39 x 23 mm, cream-white with light green center, margins with fainter purple flush, filaments 12+8 mm, white, anthers light yellow, ovary 19 mm, light green, style/stigma 5 mm, light green, white at tip.

Notes: with possible introgression from angustissma; sheet 2 of 3

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Record ID: 3d0b8fc9-a58b-477b-9589-898d9f715097

For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Andrew Salywon (asalywon@dbg.org)

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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium (DES)