CHR 516575 C – Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 516575 C
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
22 April 2016
Database record updated:
22 April 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1995-05-05 (Verbatim: 5 May 1995)
Preferred name:
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Liliales
Family:
Agavaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Aitutaki, Motu Rakau
Verbatim locality:
Aitutaki, Motu Rakau
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4828/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
5 May 1995
Start date:
1995-05-05
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
On open top of basalt boulders, facing east just above shore.
Notes:
Large rosette-forming plant with succulent, coriaceous agave-like leaves to c. 1 m long, these often entire in small young plants, in older plants spiny-leaved towards base. Old inflorescence on ground usually 5-6 m long, presumably with pendant or downward curving branches bearing shining ovoid bulbils (one aberrant branch near ground only).
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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