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|accepted_name=Agave parryi subsp. neomexicana
|accepted_authority=(Wooton & Standley) B. Ullrich
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=15: 259. 1992
|year=1992
}}
|common_names=New Mexico agave
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Agave neomexicana
|authority=Wooton & Standley
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Agave;Agave parryi;Agave parryi subsp. neomexicana
|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 parryi]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Agave parryi subsp. neomexicana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 450, 456, 458
|treatment_page=page 457
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rosettes </b>flat-topped, 3.5–4.5 × 4–6 dm. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, 17–45 × 4–12 cm; blade lanceolate; margins straight, teeth 5–7 mm, 1–3 cm apart; apical spine dark brown, subulate or acicular, 2.5–3 cm. <b>Scape</b> (2–)3–4.5 m. <b>Inflorescences</b>: lateral branches (7–)10–17, slightly ascending. <b>Flowers</b> 5.5–6.7 cm; perianth red to orange in bud, yellow to yellowish green at anthesis, tube 12–18 mm, limb lobes erect to ascending, 15–20 × 3–4 mm; filaments inserted (sometimes irregularly) above mid perianth tube, green, 3.5–4.5 cm; ovary neck 4–7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> oblong, 2.5–3.5 cm. <b>2n</b> = 120.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid spring–early summer.
|habitat=Gravelly to rocky places in grasslands and desert scrub
|elevation=1600–2100 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>The Mescalero Apaches were so named because of their use of Agave parryi subsp. neomexicana. The rosettes were baked to produce a sweet, sticky food source. Overuse probably accounts in part for the limited distribution and infrequent occurrence of the species. H. S. Gentry (1982) suggested “the extensive stands of agaves along the eastern bajada of the Sierra Guadalupe” in New Mexico and Texas today may have been “a tribal no-man’s-land” between the warring Comanche and Apache peoples. E. B. Granick (1944) reported the plant as “tetraploid” without actually providing a chromosome number.</p>
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name=Agave parryi subsp. neomexicana
|author=
|authority=(Wooton & Standley) B. Ullrich
|rank=subspecies
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Agave neomexicana
|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid spring–early summer.
|habitat=Gravelly to rocky places in grasslands and desert scrub
|elevation=1600–2100 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1992
|special status=
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|genus=Agave
|species=Agave parryi
|subspecies=Agave parryi subsp. neomexicana
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