Agave parryi
(Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, 538-539)
(Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, 538-539)
Rosettes compact, globose, medium-sized gray to light green, freely suckering, 40-50x 60-75 cm, with 100 to 160 closely imbricated leaves; leaves mostly 25-40x 8-12 cm, linear-ovate, short acuminate, rigid, thick, nearly plane to concave above, rounded below;teeth mostly 1-2 cm apart, small, the largest above mid-blade 3-7 mm long, mostly rather straight on nearly straight margin, dark brown to grayish; spine 15-30 mm long, nearly flat above, dark brown aging to gray, decurrent to the first or second teeth; panicles stout, 4-6 m tall, with large reflexing bracts on peduncle and with 20-36 stout lateral peduncles on upper half of shaft; flowers in bud pink to red, opening yellow, mostly 60-75 mm long; ovary 30-45 mm long with long neck (6-9 mm), mildly constricted and grooved; tube 8-12 mm deep, 15-18 mm wide, fleshy, thickly angled, deeply grooved; tepals subequal, 18-24 x 4-6 mm, thick, ascending to erect, soon involute,linear above the rather open sinuses, papillate within well below the hooded tip, the inner thickly keeled, 2-costate within; filaments broad, 40-55 mm long, inserted near orifice of tube 7-11 mm above base of tube; anthers excentric to centric, 20-24 mmlong, yellow; pistil eventally exceeding stamens with capitate 3-lobed stigma; capsuleson stout pedicels, 3.5-5 x 1.5-2 cm, short-stipitate, beaked, strong-walled; seeds 7-8 x 5-6 mm, half moon in outline,with low, thick rim and shallow hilar notch.
Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, pgs. 538-539
Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, pgs. 538-539
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