Dasylirion

Accepted species 23 Documented here 11 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 23 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Dasylirion wheeleri S.Watson ex Rothr. 2,389 documented
Dasylirion texanum Scheele 216 documented
Dasylirion leiophyllum Engelm. ex Trel. 153 documented
Dasylirion cedrosanum Trel. 75 documented
Dasylirion acrotrichum (Schiede) Zucc. 46 documented
Dasylirion parryanum Trel. 26 documented
Dasylirion berlandieri S.Watson 19 documented
Dasylirion serratifolium (Karw. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Zucc. 9 documented
Dasylirion quadrangulatum S.Watson 7 documented
Dasylirion longistylum J.F.Macbr. 3 documented
Dasylirion miquihuanense Bogler 3 documented
Dasylirion longissimum Lem. 2 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion durangense Trel. 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion gentryi Bogler 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion glaucophyllum Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion graminifolium (Zucc.) Zucc. 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion lucidum Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion micropterum Villarreal, A.E.Estrada & Encina 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion occidentalis Bogler ex Hochstätter 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion palaciosii Rzed. 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion sereke Bogler 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion simplex Trel. 0 below the evidence gate
Dasylirion treleasei (Bogler) Hochstätter 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.