Agave scabraOrtega

WFO wfo-0000754774 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Agave scabra, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. a Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202767466
Agave scabra, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. b Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196331735
Agave scabra, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9946755
Agave scabra, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez
fig. d Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196331772
Agave scabra, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9946759

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Agave scabra is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaragua
Native distribution of Agave scabra, 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 Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
El Salvador ELS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC

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 17 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 brachystachys Cav.
  • Agave brachystachys var. strictior Jacobi & C.D.Bouché
  • Agave humilis M.Roem.
  • Agave langlassei André
  • Agave oliveriana (Rose) A.Berger
  • Agave polianthoides M.Roem.
  • Agave polyanthoides Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Agave saponaria Lindl.
  • Agave sessiliflora Hemsl.
  • Agave spicata DC.
  • Manfreda brachystachys (Cav.) Rose
  • Manfreda malinaltenangensis Matuda
  • Manfreda oliveriana Rose
  • Manfreda scabra (Ortega) McVaugh
  • Manfreda sessiliflora (Hemsl.) Matuda
  • Polianthes brachystachys (Cav.) Shinners
  • Polianthes oliveriana (Rose) Shinners

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.