Author: |
William Trelease,
1911 |
Family: |
NOLINACEAE* |
Origin: |
NE Mexico |
Soil: |
Grit |
Water:
|
Medium |
Sun: |
Medium |
Thickness: |
1
Meter |
Height: |
50
Centimetres |
Flower:
|
Pink |
Propagate: |
Seeds |
Names:
|
Sacamencate |
Synonyms: |
Nolina hookeri Rowley,
1990,
Dasylirion hookeri
Lemaire, 1859.
Beaucarnea hookeri Baker, 1872.
Calibanus
caespitosus Rose, 1906.
Dasylirion caespitosum, Scheidw.
Dasylirion flexile, K.Koch
Dasylirion hartwegianum, Hook.
Is actually now back to; Beaucarnea hookeri
Baker, 1872. |
This member of the Nolinaceae family was first described by Sir
William Hooker as Dasylirion
hartwegianum (by mistake). Then by Lemaire in 1859, as Dasylirion hookeri. In 1911
William Trelease moved it to the Calibanus genesis. Its found in Hidalgo, San Luis
Potosí,
Mexico, where it grows in grit and enjoys quite some water in the
short growing-season and lots of sun. The caudex can grow to one meter
in diameter, but the grass-like leaves will only get half a meter long. The
clusters of flowers are pink, and it can not be reproduced by cuttings of
the caudex (or leafs). I found my first small one in Llandilo, Australia in
2002.
It is dioecious, I don't know what I got.
The name Calibanus is after Shakespeare's monster Caliban. The
species after Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1817-1911, a English botanist.
DNA study by Vanessa Rojas-Piña,
Mark E. Olson, Leonardo O. Alvarado-Cárdenas & Luis E. Eguiarte show
Calibanus is nested within the Beaucarnea.
Maybe it was re-named by G.D. Rowley in 1990, as Nolina hookeri. Despite
of its differences in seeds. DNA study proved it wrong.
*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG
IV 2016,
Nolinaceae
is
now part of
the Asparagaceae.
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