Yucca rupicola Scheele

Twist-leaf Yucca

Linnaea, 23:143.1850.

Synonymy

Yucca rupicola var. tortifolia Engelmann, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 3: 48. 1873.

Scheele's type specimen. from the vicinity of New Braunfels, Texas, collected by Lindheimer in 1845 on a stoney plateau, is now lost.
Neotype: Hochstätter fh 1179.91, 17 March 1999, Stonewall area, Texas (SRP).

Other representative material studied.

Texas:fh 1179.91, Stonewall Region, Texas, 320m
fh 1179.92, Stone Mtn., Texas 340m,
fh 1179.93, Mable Falls, Texas, 370m,
fh 1179.94, Johnson City, Texas 410m

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Yucca rupicola

Yucca rupicola, fh 1179.91, September 1999
Stonewall region, Texas, with typical twisted leaves