- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60474750-2
- Publication
- Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by William H. Emory. Volume 2, Botany
- Collation
- 213
- Date of Publication
- 1-20 Apr 1859
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Agavaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- Mountains near El Paso, and along the Rio Grande downward
- Distribution Of Types
- United States of America (Northern America)
- Type Remarks
- collection: C. Wright 682, 1907
Nomenclatural Notes
as 'lecheguilla'
Remarks
Gentry (Agaves of Continental North America: p. 154. 1982) discussed the epithet spelling