Catalog Number #: SDSU11463

Occurrence ID: 1c71b340-f3bd-451c-a19b-05b5f8cd0415

Family: Agavaceae

Observer: Dice, James C.

Collector Number: 721

Date: 1987-09-09

Verbatim Date: 09/09/1987

Additional Collectors: J.D. Tenhunen

Locality: United States, California, Riverside

Latitude/Longitude: 33.445 -117.16472

Verbatim Coordinates: 33.00° 26.00m 42s N; 117.00° 9.00m 53s W

Elevation: 390 Meters

Verbatim Elevation: 1280ft.

Habitat: reddish green larvae of Tegeticula maculata. Larvae were ca. 10-15 mm long. Locally common on S-facing slope in inland sage scrub with Salvia apiana and Eriogonum fasciculatum. Voucher for seed collection. Note: Leaves on friting plants were dead. This leaf from nearby, non-flowering individual.

Description: Monocarpic perennial with crowded reosette of linear-lanceolate, green to slightly glaucous leaves with needle-like apical point. Inflorescence a stout panicle to 3 m tall. ca. 25-50mm in diam at base. Fruit a somewhat woody, septicicdal capsule. Seeds thinm, balck. Many of the capsules contained a small portion of seeds cemented to gether and hollowed out inside by the:

Disposition: TCH,SYN