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|accepted_name=Agave chrysantha
|accepted_authority=Peebles
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|place=48: 139. 1935
|year=1935
}}
|common_names=Golden-flowered agave
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Agave palmeri var. chrysantha
|authority=(Peebles) Little
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|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Agave;Agave chrysantha
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Agavaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Agave]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Agave chrysantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 459
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>acaulescent, occasionally suckering; rosettes solitary or infrequently cespitose, 0.5–1.2 × 0.8–1 dm, rather open to somewhat dense. <b>Leaves</b> spreading to ascending, 40–75(–82) × (4–)8–10(–11) cm; blade pale to glaucous or yellowish green to green, not cross-zoned, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, rigid, adaxially deeply guttered, abaxially convex; margins undulate to wavy, armed, teeth single, well defined, 4–10 mm, (0.8–)1–3(–4) cm apart, interstitial teeth (0–)1–3(–5), mostly along distal 2/3 of margins; apical spine reddish brown or brown to gray, acicular, 2.5–4.5 cm. <b>Scape</b> 4–7 m. <b>Inflorescences</b> narrowly to broadly paniculate, open, not bulbiferous; bracts persistent, triangular, 1–5 cm; lateral branches (6–)8–18, slightly ascending, comprising distal 1/4–1/3 of inflorescence, longer than 10 cm. <b>Flowers</b> 12–21 per cluster, erect, 3.5–6.5(–6.7) cm; perianth golden yellow, tube not shallow, campanulate, 6–18 × (7–)10–21(–26) mm, limb lobes erect persistent and often leathery during and after anthesis, strongly unequal, (6–)9–15(–18) mm; stamens long-exserted; filaments inserted at 2 levels ca. mid perianth tube, erect, pale yellow, (3.2–)3.5–5 cm; anthers yellow, 7–20 mm; ovary (1.4–)2.2–3(–3.3) cm, neck slightly constricted, (0.5–)4–6(–8) mm. <b>Capsules</b> sessile or short-pedicellate, narrowly oblong to obovoid, 3.5–5 cm, apex short-beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 6–7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly places on granitic or volcanic soils in desert scrub, grasslands, pinyon-juniper, and oak woodlands
|elevation=700–2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|discussion=<p><i>Agave chrysantha</i> hybridizes with <i>A. murpheyi</i>, <i>A. palmeri</i>, <i>A. parryi </i>var.<i> couesii</i>, and <i>A. delamateri</i>.</p>
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name=Agave chrysantha
|author=
|authority=Peebles
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Agave palmeri var. chrysantha
|basionyms=
|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly places on granitic or volcanic soils in desert scrub, grasslands, pinyon-juniper, and oak woodlands
|elevation=700–2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|publication year=1935
|special status=
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|genus=Agave
|species=Agave chrysantha
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