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Agave valenciana, Jalisco, MX (c) Dante S. Figueroa, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · observed growing wild · 2021-12-26

Agave valenciana Cházaro & A.Vázquez

Asparagaceae

No habitat climate 3 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Agave valenciana is a species of agave native to Jalisco, Mexico.

Text from Wikipedia, “Agave valenciana”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the arid regions of the Americas. The genus is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves.

Text from Wikipedia, “Agave”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
Cházaro & A.Vázquez
Native to
Mexico Southwest
Wild records
9 in range· 3 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Agave, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Southwest
Kew's description“succulent perennial” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker20.633, -104.867 · in the densest population, 9 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 14 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 9 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Agave valencianaAgave valenciana

Photographs: (c) Dante S. Figueroa, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Agave valenciana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

El endemismo en las Liliopsida mexicanas
Adolfo Espejo‐Serna (2017) · Acta Botanica Mexicana
Feasibility of Agave as a feedstock for biofuel production in Australia
Joseph A. M. Holtum, Chambers Don (2010) · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University)
First confirmed records of Godman’s Long-tailed Bat, Choeroniscus godmani (Thomas, 1903) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), from Brazil and Panama
Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino, Marcus Vinicius Brandão de Oliveira, Valéria da Cunha Tavares (2022) · Check List
Agave valenciana (Agavaceae), a gigantic new species from Jalisco, Mexico
J. ANTONIO VÁZQUEZ-GARCÍA, Miguel Cházaro‐Basáñez, Yalma L. Vargas‐Rodriguez, F. G. Davies (2005) · Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Design of a Novel Auxiliary Diagnostic Test for the Determination of Authenticity of Tequila 100% Agave Silver Class Based on Chemometrics Analysis of the Isotopic Fingerprint of the Beverage
Rocío Fonseca-Aguiñaga, Uriel E. Navarro-Arteaga, Martin Muñoz-Sánchez, H. Gómez (2023) · Foods
Indirect somatic embryogenesis of Agave maximiliana Baker
Lourdes Delgado-Aceves, Santiago Corona, José Juvencio Castañeda‐Nava, José Manuel Rodríguez-Domínguez (2025) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Innovación social en producción de mezcal mexiquense y raicilla jalisciense y la denominación de origen
Karina Jacqueline Poot-Rodríguez, Patricia Mercado Salgado (2024) · Estudios Sociales Revista de Alimentación Contemporánea y Desarrollo Regional
El agotamiento de las denominaciones de origen como figuras de reconocimiento y protección. El caso de un destilado llamado raicilla
Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Carlos Federico Lucio López (2019) · Observatorio del Desarrollo Investigación Reflexión y Análisis
“Rewilding” the Mezcal Market: Cultural Practices and the Conservation of Agaves in Oaxaca, Mexico
Ivy Alana Rieger (2025) · Wild
Otra nueva especie de Agave (Agavaceae) del estado de Jalisco, Mexico
Miguel de Jesús Cházaro Basáñez, José A. Lomeli Sencion, Oscar M. Valencia Pelayo (2008) · Bouteloua
Biodiversity, ecological roles, and ancestral and agroforestry uses of the genus Agave in Mexico: a review
Oscar Cruz-Alvarez, Juan Luis Jacobo-Cuéllar, Daniel Ruiz-Juárez, Ramón Saúl Luján-Aguirre (2026) · Open Agriculture
Agave rosalesii (sect. Inermes , Asparagaceae), segregated from Agave ellemeetiana K. Koch (sect. Choritepalae ): a new species from the Mixteca Alta of western Oaxaca, Mexico
J. ANTONIO VÁZQUEZ-GARCÍA, Joachim Thiede, Julia Etter, Martin Kristen (2022) · Botanical Sciences

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History & registers

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