Yucca treculiana

Yucca treculiana
1860 illustration[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Yucca
Species:
Y. treculiana
Binomial name
Yucca treculiana
Carrière
Synonyms[3]
  • 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 treculiana Carrière[4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Texas, New Mexico and Coahuila.[5] Common names include Spanish dagger, Spanish bayonet and Don Quixote's lance.

Yucca treculiana 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.[6][7]

In the last three generations, it has experienced a population decline of 30 percent, attributable due to habitat loss.[2]

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."[8]

Spanish Dagger (Yucca treculiana), Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Cameron County, Texas, USA (12 April 2016)

References

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  1. ^ Yucca treculeana (as Yucca canaliculata) Bot. Mag. 86. t. 5201. 1860.
  2. ^ a b Hernández Sandoval, L.; Clary, K.; González-Elizondo, M.; Zamudio, S.; Matías-Palafox, M.; Sánchez, E.; Hernández-Martínez, M. (2020). "Yucca treculeana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T117428743A117470212. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T117428743A117470212.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  3. ^ Tropicos Yucca treculeana
  4. ^ Carrière, Rev. Hort. IV, 7: 580 1858.
  5. ^ Encyclopedia of Life map
  6. ^ "Yucca treculeana in Flora of North America @". Efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-05-01.
  7. ^ McKelvey, S. D. 1938–1947. Yuccas of the Southwestern United States. 2 vols. Jamaica Plain.
  8. ^ Digital specimen images at the Herbarium Berolinense
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