特徵描述
Agave 龍舌蘭屬
作者
YING, Shao-Shun
型態特徵
Perennial herbs to subshrubs, stem short, simple. Leaves mostly in a rosette, fleshy, always with an apical spine, with or without marginal spines. Flowers numerous, green to white, in terminal pedunculate spikes or panicles; perianth tubular-infundibulum, tube short, apically widened; the segments 6, equal or nearly so, spreading to erect, persistent; stamens 6, inserted at or below apex of tube; filaments filiform or basally flattened; anthers, linear, versatile; ovary inferior, 3-celled, ovules numerous in each cell; style filiform, stigma thickened, obtusely 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, oblong, loculicidally 3-valved; seeds numerous, thin, black.