Agave caymanensis Proctor

Cayman Agave

No habitat climate 40 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Agave caymanensis is a species of agave that is endemic to Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac in the Cayman Islands. It can be found in dry shrubland at all elevations of the islands. A. caymanensis gradually forms a short trunk, that is clothed in dead leaves. It can reach heights of 4 m and widths of 3 m with a rosette of massive, succulent leaves rimmed with thorns. More on Wikipedia ›

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About the genus · Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the arid regions of the Americas. The genus is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves.

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Family

Asparagaceae

Described by

Proctor

Native to

Cayman Is.

Wild records

106 in range· 55 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Agave, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 106 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeCayman Is.

Kew's description“succulent perennial or chamaephyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker19.34, -81.091 · in the densest population, 106 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 106 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 55 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 62 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 106 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 106 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) caymanmatt, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Jared Shorma, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) marique, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Agave caymanensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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