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Dasylirion

Dasylirion
Family: Asparagaceae
Dasylirion image
Max Licher
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David J. Bogler in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Plants perennial, polycarpic; roots spreading, 2-8 mm diam. Stems short or elongate, often with erect or reclining trunk. Leaves persistent, numerous, forming rosettes, spreading; blade long-linear, fibrous, glabrous, sometimes waxy-glaucous, bases expanded, overlapping, spoon-shaped, margins with sharp, curved prickles, apex fibrous. Inflorescences paniculate, racemose, bracteate; panicles narrow, borne on long, woody stalks; bracts leaflike proximally, stramineous distally, lanceolate; fascicles of dense racemes in axils of bracts. Flowers small, functionally unisexual, some plants with only male flowers, others with only female flowers; floral bracts laciniate, membranous; tepals 6, distinct, whitish, greenish, or purple, obovate, margins denticulate; stamens 6, rudimentary in pistillate flowers; ovary superior, 3-angled, abortive in staminate flowers; style short, ± strap-shaped, slightly expanded at tip; stigma 3-lobed, lobes weakly connate into tube; pedicel of pistillate flowers articulate. Fruits capsular, 1-locular, dry, indehiscent, 3-winged. Seed 1, golden brown, 3-angled, turbinate. x = 19.
Species within checklist: NAU-Yuma BSC 414
Dasylirion acrotriche
Media resource of Dasylirion acrotriche
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Dasylirion acrotrichum
Media resource of Dasylirion acrotrichum
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Dasylirion berlandieri
Media resource of Dasylirion berlandieri
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Dasylirion bigelovii
Media resource of Dasylirion bigelovii
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Dasylirion cedrosanum
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Dasylirion durangense
Media resource of Dasylirion durangense
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Dasylirion gentryi
Media resource of Dasylirion gentryi
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Dasylirion glaucophyllum
Media resource of Dasylirion glaucophyllum
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Dasylirion graminifolium
Media resource of Dasylirion graminifolium
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Dasylirion heteracanthum
Media resource of Dasylirion heteracanthum
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Dasylirion leiophyllum
Media resource of Dasylirion leiophyllum
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Dasylirion lindheimeriana
Media resource of Dasylirion lindheimeriana
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Dasylirion longissimum
Media resource of Dasylirion longissimum
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Dasylirion longistylum
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Dasylirion lucidum
Media resource of Dasylirion lucidum
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Dasylirion micropterum
Media resource of Dasylirion micropterum
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Dasylirion miquihuanense
Media resource of Dasylirion miquihuanense
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Dasylirion palaciosii
Media resource of Dasylirion palaciosii
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Dasylirion parryanum
Media resource of Dasylirion parryanum
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Dasylirion quadrangulatum
Media resource of Dasylirion quadrangulatum
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Dasylirion sereke
Media resource of Dasylirion sereke
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Dasylirion serratifolium
Media resource of Dasylirion serratifolium
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Dasylirion simplex
Media resource of Dasylirion simplex
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Dasylirion stewartii
Media resource of Dasylirion stewartii
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Dasylirion tenuifolium
Media resource of Dasylirion tenuifolium
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Dasylirion texanum
Media resource of Dasylirion texanum
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Dasylirion treleasei
Media resource of Dasylirion treleasei
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Dasylirion wheeleri
Media resource of Dasylirion wheeleri
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