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Yucca grandiflora

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Species of flowering plant

Sahualiqui
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Yucca
Species: Y. grandiflora
Binomial name
Yucca grandiflora
H.S. Gentry

Yucca grandiflora Gentry is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora.

Common names include Sahualiqui and Large-flowered Yucca. The Pima Bajo peoples of the region sometimes eat the immature fruits.

It has a wide range, although it has a very low population density where it occurs.

References

  1. ^ Ayala-Hernández, M.M.; Solano, E. (2020). "Yucca grandiflora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T117427994A117470067. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T117427994A117470067.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. H.S. Gentry, Madrono 14: 51-53. 1957.
  3. Gentry, H.S. 1972 The Agave family in Sonora. USDA Agricultural Handbook 399.
  4. Southwestern Biodiversity Yucca grandiflora, map
  5. Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
  6. Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.
Taxon identifiers
Yucca grandiflora
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