Agave xylonacanthaSalm-Dyck

century plant

WFO wfo-0000754974 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Agave xylonacantha, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. a José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-04 / obs. 181611897
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz
fig. b José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29417220
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by Frank Sengpiel
fig. c Frank Sengpiel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11909391
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. d Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10028812
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. e Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10027064
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. f Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10026821
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. g Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8188191
Agave xylonacantha, photographed by Sandino Guerrero
fig. h Sandino Guerrero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 7873899

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Agave xylonacantha is native: Mexico Northeast Mexico Northeast
Native distribution of Agave xylonacantha, 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 Northeast MXE NORTHERN AMERICA

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 9 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 amurensis Jacobi
  • Agave carchariodonta Pamp.
  • Agave heteracantha var. splendens (Jacobi) A.Terracc.
  • Agave hybrida J.Verschaff.
  • Agave kochii Jacobi
  • Agave perbella Baker
  • Agave splendens Jacobi
  • Agave univittata var. carchariodonta (Pamp.) Breitung
  • Agave vanderdonckii Baker

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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