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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Dasylirion leiophyllum
|accepted_authority=Engelmann ex Trelease
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc.
|place=50: 433, fig. 1911
|year=1911
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dasylirion heteracanthum
|authority=I. M. Johnston
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Dasylirion;Dasylirion leiophyllum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Agavaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dasylirion]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dasylirion leiophyllum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 422
|treatment_page=page 423
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>typically large and robust, with small crowns; trunks to 1 m, erect or reclining. <b>Leaves</b> elongate, rigid; blade bright green, 90–110 × (1.5–)2–3 cm wide above broadened base, usually smooth and shiny, glabrous, not waxy; prickles mostly retrorse. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2.5–5 m; stalk 3–5 cm diam. at base; branches mostly basal, erect, 4–10 cm; bracts lanceolate; fascicles of flowers condensed, 8–12 cm from base to tip; primary axes 2–5 cm. <b>Flowers</b> with receptacles 0.2–0.4 mm; tepals whitish or greenish, 1.8–2 × 1 mm; style 0.2–0.3 mm; stigma lobes 0.3–0.4 mm; pedicel 2–2.4 mm in fruit. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to obovoid, 6–7 × 4–4.5 mm; distal wing lobes 1.5–2 mm, rounded in cross section, not indented.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mainly Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Gravelly limestone and igneous slopes, bajadas, canyons, and arroyos of mountains
|elevation=1200–1800 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p><i>Dasylirion leiophyllum</i> hybridizes with <i>D. texanum</i> in the area of overlap. Specimens with mixed prickle curvature have been treated as D. heteracanthum, but on the whole these resemble <i>D. leiophyllum</i>, and so D. heteracanthum is reduced to synonomy here.</p>
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name=Dasylirion leiophyllum
|authority=Engelmann ex Trelease
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dasylirion heteracanthum
|basionyms=
|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering mainly Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Gravelly limestone and igneous slopes, bajadas, canyons, and arroyos of mountains
|elevation=1200–1800 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc.
|publication year=1911
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_869.xml
|genus=Dasylirion
|species=Dasylirion leiophyllum
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