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Calibanus
Sign in to saveCalibanus was a genus of two species of flowering plants, both evergreen succulents from dry areas of northeastern Mexico.The genus was subsumed in the genus Beaucarnea in the year 2014. The APG III classification system places Beaucarnea in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Convallarioideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae.) The now-defunct Calibanus was formerly included in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae) but was separated from them, for it is polycarpic and dioecious. Its name refers to the monster Caliban, an antagonist in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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It is catalogued under topics including Asparagaceae genera, Convallarioideae and Dioecious plants.
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Species
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyConidae
Calibanus is een geslacht uit de aspergefamilie. De soorten komen voor in het midden en noordoosten van Mexico. Soorten Calibanus glassianus Calibanus hookeri Zie de categorie Calibanus van Wikimedia Commons voor mediabestanden over dit onderwerp.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- MICH, INHS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Philippines
Wikidata facts
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- Image
- Calibanus hookeri1 ies.jpg
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- Commons category
- Beaucarnea
- taxon name
- Calibanus
- topic's main category
- Category:Calibanus
- taxonomic type
- Calibanus hookeri
- taxon common name
- 砾丝兰属
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Calibanus was a genus of two species of flowering plants, both evergreen succulents from dry areas of northeastern Mexico.The genus was subsumed in the genus Beaucarnea in the year 2014. The APG III classification system places Beaucarnea in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Convallarioideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae.) The now-defunct Calibanus was formerly included in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae) but was separated from them, for it is polycarpic and dioecious. Its name refers to the monster Caliban, an antagonist in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Calibanus is dioecious. It is extremely drought-tolerant, with a slow-growing habit. It has tuberous roots called caudices. The caudex can grow to 1m in diameter, with clumps of green-blue, coarse, grasslike, wiry leaves 50 cm long rising from the center and arching down with age. Clusters of tiny, creamy-white flowers, sometimes tinged with pink or purple, are rigid, about 10–20 cm long. Female plants bear globose, ovoid, 3-angled berries with ellipsoid seeds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calibanus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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