Agave mitisMart.

WFO wfo-0000754585 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Agave mitis, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-04 / obs. 45168730
Agave mitis, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. b José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31095439
Agave mitis, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. c Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30745976
Agave mitis, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. d José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15015789
Agave mitis, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. e Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13144833
Agave mitis, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. f Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13172088
Agave mitis, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. g Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 13172073
Agave mitis, photographed by Alejandro Gómez Maya
fig. h Alejandro Gómez Maya, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12766152

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Agave mitis is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast Mexico CentralMexico Northeast
Native distribution of Agave mitis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agave albicans Jacobi
  • Agave albicans var. ctenophora Trel.
  • Agave albicans var. medio-picta Trel.
  • Agave botterii Baker
  • Agave bouchei Jacobi
  • Agave celsiana Jacobi
  • Agave celsii Hook.
  • Agave celsii var. albicans (Jacobi) Gentry
  • Agave concinna Baker
  • Agave densiflora Regel
  • Agave ehrenbergii Jacobi
  • Agave goeppertiana Jacobi
  • Agave haseloffii Jacobi
  • Agave legrelliana var. breviflora Trel.
  • Agave macrantha Tod.
  • Agave macrantha var. concinna (Baker) A.Terracc.
  • Agave micracantha Salm-Dyck
  • Agave micrantha var. albicans (Jacobi) A.Terracc.
  • Agave micrantha var. albidior Salm-Dyck
  • Agave mitis var. albicans (Jacobi) A.Terracc.
  • Agave mitis var. mitis
  • Agave oblongata Jacobi
  • Agave ousselghemiana Jacobi
  • Agave rupicola Regel

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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