Yucca
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Asparagaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Large plants, with a short sometimes subterranean eaudex, or tall woody and leafy stem, or bracted scape, the leaves linear or lanceolate, usually rigid and sharp-pointed, bearing long marginal thread-like fibres in our species. Flowers large, nodding in a terminal raceme or panicle. Perianth campanulate, or nearly globular, white in our species, of 6 ovate, or ovate-lanceolate connivent segments. Stamens hypogynous, shorter than the perianth; filaments thickened above; anthers small, versatile. Ovary sessile, 3-celled, or imperfectly 6-celled; ovules numerous; style columnar, short, with 3 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a capsule, or fleshy, or spongy and indehiscent. Seeds numerous, flattened, horizontal. [The Haitien name.] About 30 species, natives of North and Central America. Type species: Yucca aloifolia L.