Calibanus
Calibanus is a plant genus which belongs to the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The botanical name derives from Caliban, a character from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, from.
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- 3.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
The species of the genus Calibanus have a spherical, slightly flattened caudex of up to 50 centimeters in diameter. The thick bark is corky and furrowed. It will eventually woody. The monocarpic rosettes are formed on branches that do not extend beyond the Caudexoberfläche. The thin leaves are grassy and wiry. The leaf blade is narrowly linear, slightly concave and keeled. She is 30 inches long and 2-3 mm wide. The leaf margins are cut roughed up and entire margins at the top.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is a simple raceme with mostly unisexual or hermaphrodite, sometimes with flowers. He is shorter than the leaves with up to 25 centimeters in height. The partial inflorescences are short-stalked. The trockenhäutigen bracts are ovate or lanceolate and much shorter than that borne by them 6 to 8 inches long branches. The six, elliptic obovate, dirty whitish yellow, translucent tepals are 2-3 mm long and 1.5 to 2 millimeters wide.
The six stamens are almost the same 2 to 3 millimeters long. The egg-shaped, dreifächrige ovary is between 2.5 and 3 millimeters long and up to 2 mm wide. An ovule is present per tray. The seated scar is three-lobed.
Fruit and seeds
The pale straw- brown, spherical to ovoid fruits are triangular, 8-9 mm long and 6-7 mm wide. They are not tearing up and contain a melon -shaped seed 3-4 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide.
Cytology
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Systematics and distribution
The genus is widespread in Central Calibanus to northeast Mexico. The first description of the genus was made in 1906 by Joseph Nelson Rose. The genus Calibanus is closely related to the genera Beaucarnea and Nolina.
The genus Calibanus include the following types:
- Calibanus glassianus L.Hern. & Zamudio
- Calibanus hookeri ( Lem. ) Trel.