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Yucca rupicola
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Yucca rupicola is a plant in the family Asparagaceae, known as the

twistleaf yucca, twisted-leaf yucca, Texas yucca[2] or twisted-leaf
Spanish-dagger.[3] The species was described by George Heinrich
Adolf Scheele in 1850.[4] This is a small, acaulescent plant with
distinctive twisted leaves. It is native to the Edwards Plateau region
of Texas and also to northeastern Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo Len).

Twistleaf yucca

[2][5]

Yucca rupicola forms colonies of rosettes, lacking trunks aboveground but producing a branched caudex under the surface. Leaves
are narrowly lanceolate, slightly succulent, twisted, up to 60 cm long
but about 40 mm wide at its widest point. Flowers are pendant
(drooping), bell-shaped, white or greenish. Fruit is a dry capsule up
to 6 cm long.[6][7][8]

References
1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
2. "Yucca rupicola (Twistleaf yucca)". Native Plant Database. Lady
Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
3. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived
from the original (xls) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
4. Adolf Scheele (1850). "Beitrge zur einer Flora von Texas". Linnaea.
23: 139146 (page 143).
5. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Yucca rupicola
(http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=291736)
6. Flora of North America v 26 p 431, Yucca rupicola
(http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&
taxon_id=242102074)
7. Scheele, George Heinrich Adolf. 1850. Linnaea 23: 143146. Yucca
rupicola (http://www.botanicus.org/page/110867)
8. Engelmann, Georg. 1873. Transactions of the Academy of Science of
St. Louis 3: 48. Yucca rupicola' (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
/page/5792679#page/62/mode/1up)

Kingdom:

Plantae

Clade:

Angiosperms

Clade:

Monocots

Order:

Asparagales

Family:

Asparagaceae

Subfamily:

Agavoideae

Genus:

Yucca

Species:

Y. rupicola
Binomial name
Yucca rupicola
Scheele

Synonyms[1]
Yucca lutescens Carrire
Yucca rupicola var.
tortifolia Engelm.

External links
photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden,
Yucca rupicola, collected in Texas in 1900
(http://www.tropicos.org
/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=100147520)
Data related to Yucca rupicola at Wikispecies

Scientific classification

Yucca tortifolia Lindh. ex

Torr.

Yucca tortilis Carrire

Media related to Yucca rupicola at Wikimedia Commons

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