RUBINA AKHTER and SHAHINA A. GHAZANFAR

Shrubby plants, usually with a trunk. Leaves in rosettes at the base, stiff, often toothed with pungent apices. Flowers nodding, pedicellate, in erect panicles. Perianth campanulate, segments free. Filaments fleshy, included; anthers small, hardly distinguished from the filaments. Ovary superior; style usually short, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule or fleshy and berry-like.

A genus of 40 species found in Southern U.S., Mexico and West Indies. Represented in Pakistan by a single naturalised species.

Lower Taxon

• Yucca aloifolia L.