Catalog Number #: SDSU13702

Occurrence ID: 1e2bc6c2-d432-403c-87b5-c1630b1c5eb7

Secondary Catalog #: 13702

Family: Agavaceae

Observer: Dice, James C.

Collector Number: 721

Date: 1987-09-09

Verbatim Date: 09/09/1987

Additional Collectors: with 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: Locally common on S-facing slope in inland sage scrub with Salvia apiana and Eriogonum fasciculatum.

Description: Monocarpic perennial with crowded rosette of linear-lanceolate, green to slightly glaucous leaves with needle-like apical point. Infloreescence a stout panicle to3 m tall, ca. 25-50 mm in diameter at base. Fruit a somewhat woody, septicidal capsule. Seeds thin, black. Many of the capsules contained a small portion of seeds cemented together and hollowed out inside by the reddish-green larvae of Tegeticula maculata. Larvae were ca. 10-15 mm long. Voucher for seed collection. NOTE: Leaves on fruiting plants were dead. This leaf from nearby, non-flowering individual.

Disposition: SMER