Small to medium-sized, open, graceful rosettes with relatively few leaves, forming cespitose mounds by epigeous axillary budding, flowering repeatedly from upper leaf axils. Leaves 50-70 x 3-5 cm, long lanceolate, widest near base, yellow-green , arching and recurving , succulent , with weak fibers, asperous , plane above , convex below in the basal 1/3 , the margin minutely serrulate ; spine absent, the tip drying early, yellowish, friable, wind-scuffed ; spike 1.2 - 1.7 m tall, ascending to erect, densely flowered in upper third of shaft, the peduncle with erect triangular-acuminate bracts; flowers 22-26 mm long, white to pale yellow, geminate, persistent; bractlet 50-70 mm long, chartaceous, base boat-shaped, long-caudate; ovary fusiform 12-14 mm long, virtually neckless; tube reduced to a short receptacle; tepals 11 mm long, ovate, spreading, hyaline, distinct; the outer over-lapping inner, lanceolate, acute, the inner broadly ovate , obtuse , both flocculose at tip; filaments, long-exserted, 50-60 mm long, white, persisting, elongating in post-anthesis, inserted on receptacle; anthers sagittate, 7-8 mm long, yellow; pistil eventually exceeding stamens; capsules 2 x 1 cm, obtuse, thin-walled, 4 mm stipitate; seeds 3-3.5 x 2-2.3 mm, half round
Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, pgs. 91
Agave bracteosa
(Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, 91)
(Agaves of Continental North America, Howard Scott Gentry, 91)
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