Yucca carnerosana
| Giant Spanish dagger | |
|---|---|
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Agavoideae |
| Genus: | Yucca |
| Species: | Y. carnerosana |
| Binomial name | |
| Yucca carnerosana (Trel.) McKelvey | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Samulea carnerosana Trel. | |
Yucca carnerosana, commonly known as Carneros Yucca or Giant Spanish dagger, is a species of yucca of the far southeastern Chihuahuan Desert. The species occurs in northeastern Mexico (Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas, Nuevo León).[3][4]
Yucca carnerosana is a large arborescent yucca, sometimes branched, up to 20 feet tall, with snowy white flowers.[5]
Taxonomy
[edit]Trelease described the genus Samuela based on two species, Samuela faxoniana (now Yucca faxoniana) and S. carnerosana (now Yucca carnerosana).[6]
The 2025 paper "Phylogenetic relationships and character evolution in Yucca (Agavoideae, Asparagaceae)" by Ayala-Hernandez et al. analyzed genetic data and found Yucca carnerosana and Yucca faxoniana to not only be distinct species, but of different lineages and not closely related to each other. [7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Hernández Sandoval, L.; Zamudio, S.; González-Elizondo, M.; Matías-Palafox, M.; Hernández-Martínez, M.; Sánchez, E.; Clary, K. (2020). "Yucca carnerosana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T117423086A117469977. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T117423086A117469977.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ Tropicos, Yucca carnerosana
- ↑ Encyclopedia of life, Giant Spanish Dagger
- ↑ Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(1): 1-76. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
- ↑ Texas Native Plants Database, Yucca carnerosana
- ↑ "FNA: Yucca faxoniana". Flora of North America.
- ↑ Ayala-Hernández, María M.; Fehlberg, Shannon D.; García-Mendoza, Abisaí J.; Solano, Eloy; García-Sandoval, Ricardo; Samain, Marie-Stéphanie (2025). "Phylogenetic relationships and character evolution in Yucca (Agavoideae, Asparagaceae)". Phytotaxa. 687 (2): 176–200. Bibcode:2025Phytx.687..176A. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.687.2.2.
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