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|accepted_name=Agave gracilipes
|accepted_authority=Trelease
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=22: 95, plates 98, 99. 1912
|year=1912
}}
|common_names=Slim-footed agave
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Agave;Agave gracilipes
|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 gracilipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 443, 445, 450
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>acaulescent, sparsely suckering; rosettes usually solitary, 3–4 × 7–8 dm, dense. <b>Leaves</b> ascending, 18–30 × 4.5–7 cm; blade glaucous and yellow- or gray-green, not cross-zoned, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, rigid, adaxially concave toward apex, abaxially convex; margins straight, armed, teeth single, well defined, 2–8 mm, 1.5–2.5 cm apart; apical spine reddish brown to gray, acicular, 2.5–5 cm. <b>Scape</b> (1.8–)4–5 m. <b>Inflorescences</b> narrowly to somewhat broadly paniculate, dense, not bulbiferous; bracts persistent, lanceolate, 1–3(–5) cm; lateral branches 30–40, slightly ascending, comprising distal 1/3–1/2 of inflorescence, longer than 10 cm, or short-scaped individuals (1.8–3.5 m) with only 7–20 lateral branches on distal 1/4. <b>Flowers</b> 6–45 per cluster, erect, 4–5.5(–5.8) cm; perianth red in bud, yellow to yellow-green at anthesis, tube broadly campanulate, 4–7 × 9–15 mm, limb lobes spreading to ascending, slightly unequal, 14–18 mm; stamens long-exserted; filaments inserted just below rim of perianth tube, erect, yellow, (2.8–)3–4.5 cm; anthers yellow, 16–20 mm; ovary 2.5–3.2 cm, neck constricted, 3–5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> sessile or short-pedicellate, oblong, 2.7–4.4 cm, apex beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 5–6.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall.
|habitat=Gravelly to rocky, often calcareous places in grasslands, desert scrub, and pinyon juniper woodlands
|elevation=1200–1900 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|discussion=<p><i>Agave gracilipes</i> probably represents an ancient hybrid involving <i>A. lechuguilla</i> and <i>A. parryi </i>subsp.<i> neomexicana</i>. In fact, hybrids between <i>A. gracilipes</i> and <i>A. lechuguilla</i> appear to occur at present. However, until populations of <i>A. gracilipes</i> are thoroughly studied cytologically, we are reluctant to designate this taxon as a hybrid species (e.g., see 8. <i>A. ×arizonica</i>).</p>
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name=Agave gracilipes
|authority=Trelease
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|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–early fall.
|habitat=Gravelly to rocky, often calcareous places in grasslands, desert scrub, and pinyon juniper woodlands
|elevation=1200–1900 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1912
|special status=
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|genus=Agave
|species=Agave gracilipes
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