Yucca tenuistyla Trelease. Phenology: Mar-May. Habitat: Sandy coastal prairie, shrublands, and secondary dunes. Distribution: Endemic to se. TX in Austin, Brazoria, Galveston, and Waller Cos.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: This species is usually included in synonymy with Yucca louisianensis and Y. flaccida, but it can be readily distinguished in flower by its oblong styles similar to those of Y. filamentosa and species in Series Rupicolae. Plate 19 in Trelease (1902), photographed in Sealy, TX in Austin Co., illustrates the distinctive slender elongate style. The specimen cited from New Braunfels, TX in Trelease (1902) is probably Yucca constricta.
Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA26, NS, POWO, S13, Tx; < Yucca constricta Buckley — ETx1, K4. Basionym: Yucca tenuistyla Trel. 1902
Links to other floras: = Yucca tenuistyla - FNA26
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Heliophily ⓘ: 9
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