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Yucca treculeana

Don Quixote's lace, izote de chocha, palma pita, Spanish dagger, Trecul yucca
Habit Plants often forming colonies of rosettes, arborescent, to 7 m; rosettes with leaves hanging at various angles, giving an overall ragged appearance.
Stems

1–8, occasionally 2–5-branched, 14–15 cm diam.
Leaf

blade erect, yellowish to bluish green, usually U- or V-shaped in cross section, thick, 36–128 × 1.6–7 cm, rigid, scabrous, margins entire, filiferous with straight, coarse fibers, light brown.
Inflorescences

erect, paniculate, arising mostly within rosettes, variable in shape, usually ovoid, 18 dm, glabrous, rarely slightly pubescent;

peduncle scapelike, 0.3 m or longer.
Flowers

pendent;

perianth globose;

tepals distinct, cream-colored, occasionally tinged with purple, ovate, 2.7–8.1 × 1–3.4 cm, apex rounded or acute;

filaments 1–2.7 cm, short-pubescent proximally;

anthers 1–6 mm;

pistil 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–1 cm;

ovary 1.3–3.3 cm;

style 2–8 mm;

stigmas distinct.
Fruits

pendent, baccate, indehiscent, 4.4–18.7 × 1.8–4.6 cm, fleshy, succulent.
Seeds

black, 5–14 mm diam., 1–5 mm thick.

Yucca treculeana
Phenology Flowering mid winter–spring.
Habitat Grassy or rocky slopes or mesas, brushland, chaparral
Elevation 0–1600 m (0–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX; n Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas)
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Source FNA vol. 26, p. 428.
Parent taxa Agavaceae > Yucca
Sibling taxa
Y. aloifolia, Y. angustissima, Y. arkansana, Y. baccata, Y. baileyi, Y. brevifolia, Y. campestris, Y. constricta, Y. elata, Y. faxoniana, Y. filamentosa, Y. flaccida, Y. glauca, Y. gloriosa, Y. harrimaniae, Y. intermedia, Y. madrensis, Y. necopina, Y. neomexicana, Y. pallida, Y. reverchonii, Y. rostrata, Y. rupicola, Y. schidigera, Y. tenuistyla, Y. thompsoniana, Y. utahensis
Synonyms Y. argospatha, Y. aspera, Y. baccata var. australis, Y. baccata var. macrocarpa, Y. canaliculata, Y. canaliculata var. pendula, Y. crassifila, Y. longifolia, Y. torreyi, Y. treculeana var. succulenta, Y. undulata
Name authority Carrière: Rev. Hort., 580. (1858)
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