Agave sisalana

瓊麻

naturalized

Agave sisalana Perr. ex Enghlm.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

Enghlm. 1875. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 3: 314. (Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis)

Masam. 1936. Short Flora of Formosa 274. (Short Fl. Formos.)

Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh. 2010. Taiwania 55(2): 156.
Ciou & Pong. 2008. Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 64. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou. 1994. Trees of Taiwan revised. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)
Lu, Ou & Lu. 2001. Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 5: 163. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan)

shrub-herb

Subshrubs or perennial herbs; stem simple, 0.6-1 m tall, densely leafy.
Leaves sword-shaped, 1-1.8 m long, 10-15 cm wide, dark green, more or less pruinose, rather rigid, foetid when bruised, apex acute to acuminate; margins with shallow-grooved spines, prickles absent.
Scape arising from center of rosette, 5-8 m tall, much branched upward, densely flowered; flowers erect, 5-6 cm long, green to yellowish green, often containing much nectar, very foetid in the evening; perianth tube 1-1.8 cm long; segments oblong, 3-4 cm long, with a tuft of hairs on the inner side; stamens 6, filaments inserted above middle of the perianth tube; accrescent during anthesis.
Capsules subglobose.

台灣 : introduced to Taiwan in 1890, widely cultivated in the southern tip of the island, sometimes escaping.
世界 : Native country not known with certainty.