A second species of Furcraea Vent. (Agavaceae), F. tuberosa (Mill.) W.T.Aiton, naturalised in South Africa

Gideon F. Smith; Estrela Figueiredo

doi:10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a13

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Gideon F. Smith,¹ Estrela Figueiredo²

¹Office of the Chief Director: Biosystematics Research and Biodiversity Collections, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria 0001 South Africa / Acocks Chair, Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Botany, University o
²Department of Botany, P.O.Box 77000, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa / Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, 3001-455 Coimbra, Portugal (email: ). estrelafi

Abstract

Furcraea tuberosa (Mill.) W.T.Aiton (Agavaceae) is recorded as having become naturalised in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. A description and illustrations of the species in South Africa are provided, and it is compared with F. hexapetala (Jacq.) Urb., with which it can be confused taxonomically. A key based on vegetative characters to distinguish among F. tuberosa, F. foetida (L.) Haw. and F. selloa K.Koch, the latter two being commonly grown or naturalised in South Africa, is included.

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Gideon F. Smith and Estrela Figueiredo "A second species of Furcraea Vent. (Agavaceae), F. tuberosa (Mill.) W.T.Aiton, naturalised in South Africa," Bradleya 2012(30), 107-110, (1 October 2012). https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a13

Published: 1 October 2012

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