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- A new species described by Cabral,
Villareal and Estrada in Act. Bot. Mexicana 80: 51-57 (2007).
It belongs to the subgenus Littaea and family group Striatae.
It grows in the Sierra Madre Oriental. A distinguishing feature
is a ring of hairs growing near the tip of each leaf, below the
terminal spine.
© Ismael Cabral
- A close relative of agave angustiarum
belonging to the genus Littaea and subgenus Marginatae and described
in 2007 by Chazaro, Valencia and Vazquez. It was originally named
agave colimillensis. It grows on virtually unreachable vertical
cliffs and is endemic to the barranca of Colimilla and Rio Verde,
Jalisco. It does not produce offsets or bulbils.
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- Newly described by Vazquez in
2007. It was found in Tequila, Jalisco and with the stiff unarmed
leaves is thought possibly to be the long lost agave bakeri.
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- Described by
Lode and Pino in 2007 in Cactus Aventures (January 2008). The
type plant is to be found in Peru but these plants have also
been observed in Columbia and Ecuador. It would appear that in
the past they have been mistakenly indentified as agave americana
or agave americana v. expansa. One of the characteristics of
this plant is the inflorescence which is bent and grows almost
horizontally in a comma shape.
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Habitat photos from Peru by Helmut Wendenburg © 2008
- Discovered in 2004 and subsequently
described by Chazaro and Jimeno-Sevilla. It is found in a small
area near Cordoba in the state of Veracruz in Mexico. Although
abundant in the locality it has a very restricted geographical
distribution. It belongs to the subgenus Littaea and the family
group Polycephalae. It's closest relative is agave pendula.
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- A new species described by Garcia-Mendoza,
Jacques-Hernandez and Salazar Bravo in the Journal of the Botanical
Research Institute of Texas 1 (1):79-84,2007.
- It was found in 2003-04 in the
Sierra de San Carlos region, Taumalipas in Mexico. It belongs
to the Marginatae group of the subgenus Littaea and is similar
to agave X glomeruliflora (Berger) but is generally a larger
plant than X glomeruliflora with larger and more numerous leaves.
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- A new species of agave has been
described in SIDA Vol 20 ( 2 ) pages 495-499 in November 2002.
The authors are Greg Starr and Jose Villareal.
- The plant originates from the
Sierra de Lampazos in northern Nuevo Leon. It belongs to the
subgenus Agave and the group Parryanae. It is related to A. havardiana
and A. parrasana.
- It is considered that this plant
is the same as collected and distributed previously by Mrs Anna
Nickels as A. noah, which was never properly described or published
but Trelease in 1911 treated it as a synomym of A. wislizenii.
A.wislizenii in turn was originally considered synonymous with
A. parrasana but subsequently Ullrich in 1992 argued that it
was actually a form of A. parryi.
- Description: Agave ovatifolia is solitary (non-offsetting)
with a hemispherical rosette reaching anywhere from 2-5 feet
tall by 3-6 feet across. When grown hard, the plant will stay
on the smaller end while those grown with ample moisture will
attain maximum size. The common name, Whale's Tongue comes from
the short, wide, distinctively cupped leaf blade. Marginal teeth
are small, and the dark grayish black terminal spine is about
1 inch long. The paniculate inflorescence is 10-14 feet tall
and consists of several side branches, each densely clustered
with large, greenish yellow flowers
- Habitat and Distribution: Agave ovatifolia is found in the sierras
in northeastern Mexico. It occurs at elevations from 3,700-7,000
feet.
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Greg Starr
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- A new species
of agave is described in Brittonia: vol 55, no 3, pp. 240-244
( 2003 ). The authors are Pablo Carrillo-Reyes and Raymundo Ramirez-Delgadillo
from the University of Guadalajara and Rito Alvina from the University
of Sinaloa. The species belongs to the group Striatae of the
subgenus Littaea and comes from Jalisco and Sinaloa in western
Mexico. It is related to agave dasylirioides and agave petrophila.
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Habitat pictures from Jalisco, México
These photos are by courtesy of and strictly the property of Pablo Carrillo-Reyes
- A large,robust
new species has been described in 2004 by Miguel Chazaro-Basanez
and J. Antonio Vazquez-Garcia from the University of Guadalajara
and Yalma Luisa Vargas-Rodriguez of Louisiana State University.
The plant is solitary, non suckering with dark green cross banded
leaves. It is endemic to western Jalisco and has been placed
in the Marmoratae species group of subgenus Agave. It's closest
relative is Agave marmorata.
- It's local name
is maguey relisero and it is used in the manufacture of a type
of mescal called raicilla ( also known as ximat ), which is an
alcoholic tequila like beverage manufactured mainly from Agave
maximiliana in the rural highlands of western Mexico. It was
the examination of wild populations of this maguey relisero that
led to the realisation that these plants were not identifiable
with any currently known species.
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- ( from the Jos van Roosbroeck
collection )
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- This new species
was discovered and presented as such in 2002 by Miguel Chazaro-Basanez
and Oscar Valencia Pelayo from the University of Guadalajara.
It would appear that this plant had previously been wrongly identified
as Agave pedunculifera by a number of various authors.
- This non suckering
species is found only on the northern slopes of Sierra Manantlan
in southern Jalisco,western Mexico. It belongs to the Amolae
species group of subspecies Littaea. It's closest relative is
Agave pedunculifera from which it differs in having larger, firmer
leaves, a larger terminal spine plus larger flower spikes and
flower parts.
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collection )