Synonyms:
Yucca smalliana FERNALD, Rhodora 46: 8-9 plate 809.(1944)
Yucca filamentosa var. smalliana (Fernald) Ahles, Journ.
Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 80 (2): 172 (1964)
Yucca filamentosa sensu J.K. Small, Manual Southeastern Flora
303 (1933) not Linnaeus (1753)
Type location:
Sandy soil near Jacksonville, Duval Co., Florida, May, A. II Curtiss,
no. 2950, in Herb. Grey. Plate 809.
ISO TYPE: FLAS 46959 (University of Florida Herbarium)
Neotype:
none.
Distribution:
Short description of the species:
This is a citation from; FERNALD, 1944, Rhodora 46: 8-9
"Yucca Smalliana, sp. nov.
Yucca filamentosa, sensu Small, Man. Sc. F. 303 (1933), not
L. Y. filamentosa, forma genuina, subf. angustifolia
Engelm. in Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci. III. 51 (1873), not Yucca angustifolia
Pursh (1814). Type: Sandy soil near Jacksonville, Florida, May, A. II Curtiss,
no. 2950, in Herb. Grey. Plate 809. Although Small states that the smaller-flowered
and more southern Yucca smalliana (Y. filamentosa sensu Small,
not L.) has "panicle-branches glabrous", the material before me shows them
merely glabrescent. At flowering time they are pruinosepilose, only in
fruit becoming glabrate. True northern Yucca filamentosa
has the panicle glabrous from the first. In it's pubescent panicle Yucca
smalliana suggest the upland Yucca flaccida
Haw., of the Blue Ridge and adjacent uplands, which may have pubescent
panicle; but as I understand it, Yucca flaccida
has very pliable and thin leaves, very broad and abruptly short-acuminate
petals (as shown in Lindl. Bot Reg. xx. t. 1895 (1836)), and the native
specimens which seem to belong to it have the style elongate and broad
and flat filaments coarsely ciliate. In Yucca smalliana (pl. 809)
the flower is smaller, with much narrower and acuminate sepals and petals,
the style obsolete or very short, and the filaments less flattened and
finely pruinose-pilose."
Take a look at Benny's "key" to the Yucca filamentosa & Yucca flaccida complex.
Notes:
AHLES did transfer Yucca smalliana Fernald to a variety of Yucca
filamentosa in Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 80 (2): 172 (1964).
this was done without any explanation! I have not been able to get any
plants or seeds from the type location i Florida, so Im not sure what the
status should be for this "species"? I can follow the idea of placing Yucca
smalliana as a variety or a subspecies of Yucca filamentosa
if Yucca flaccida placed as a variety or
a subspecies too.
Hardiness:
I haven't been able to locate plants or seed from the type location,
so I have no data of it's hardiness., It's very similar to Yucca
flaccida, but it's from Florida, so I wouldn't think it's as hardy
as Yucca flaccida!
Reference:
FERNALD, M. L. 1944., Rhodora 46(541): 5-9. plate 808-809, (description,
p. 8-9, plate 8099)
ALBERT R NEDFORD, HARRY E: AHELS, C. RHCIE BELL, Manual of the Vascular
Flora of the Carolinas (1968)
University of Florida Herbarium web site (FLAS)
HOCHSTAETTER, F., Kaktusbluete 18 :11 (2001) 18 :10 (2001) (Yucca
filamentosa ssp. smalliana)
McDaniel, J.C. (1975) (Cact. & Succ. Journ. Amer. 47 (3): 110-111,
2 figs.)
Pictures:
I don't have any pictures of this species, but if there are any from Florida who has pictures from or near the Type location I would be very happy to publish them on this site? Im also looking for plants or seeds from around the Type location area!
Yucca smalliana cultivated in Craig Howe's garden northern California.
This one may not be the true species, but Craig obtained the plant with
that name!
Photo by Craig Howe ©2000-2005
Special thanks to Fritz Hochstätter, Steve Jankalski and Dave J.
Ferguson for all their help with the Yucca filamentosa mess.
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