Yucca filamentosa Linné

 



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First Description


Species Plantarum 1: 319, 1753




Synonyms


Yucca antwerpensis Hort. ex Baker (1880)
    (Journal of the Linnaean Society 18: 228, 1880)




Yucca exigua Baker (1872)
    (Saunders' Refugium Botanicum 5: 314, 1872)




Yucca filamentosa f. genuina Engelmann (1873)
    (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 51, 1873)




Yucca filamentosa var. angustifolia Engelmann (1873)
    (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 51, 1873)




Yucca filamentosa var. bracteata Engelmann (1873)
    (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 52, 1873)




Yucca filamentosa var. grandiflora Baker (1872)
    (Saunders' Refugium Botanicum 5: 325, 1872)




Yucca filamentosa var. laevigata Engelmann (1873)
    (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 52, 1873)




Yucca filamentosa var. latifolia Engelmann (1873)
    (Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 52, 1873)




Yucca filamentosa var. mexicana Schauer (1847)
    (Linnaea 19: 703, 1847)




Yucca filamentosa var. recurvifolia Wood (1861)
    (A Class-book of Botany (ed. 1861): 709, 1861)




Yucca glauca Noisette ex Sims (1826)
    (Curtis's Botanical Magazine 53: t. 2662, 1826)





Literature


Wunderlich, R.: Ein künstlich bestäubter Fruchtknoten von Yucca filamentosa: 1938



Massey, L. K. & Hamrick, J. L.: Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae), 1998



Marr, D. L. et al.: Pollen Dispersal in Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae): The Paradox of Self-Pollination Behavior by Tegeticula yuccasella, 2000




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Basic Data

Subgenus

Chaenoyucca

Section

Filamentosae

Diameter

up to 130cm

Inflorescence

up to 3m

Flower Color

white

Flowering Time

May - June

Reproduction

seed

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New Jersery, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, etc.


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