Dasylirion

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Asparagaceae
Subfamilia: Nolinoideae
Tribus: Nolineae
Genus: Dasylirion
Species: D. acrotrichum – D. berlandieri – D. cedrosanum – D. durangense – D. gentryi – D. glaucophyllum – D. graminifolium – D. leiophyllum – D. longissimum – D. longistylum – D. lucidum – D. miquihuanense – D. occidentalis – D. palaciosii – D. parryanum – D. quadrangulatum – D. sereke – D. serratifolium – D. simplex – D. texanum – D. treleasei – D. wheeleri
Name

Dasylirion Zucc. (1838)

Type species: Dasylirion graminifolium (Zucc.) Zucc., Allg. Gartenzeitung 6: 303 (1838)

References

Zuccarini, J.G. (1838) Allg. Gartenzeitung 6: 258.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Dasylirion in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 28. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Dasylirion. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 28 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Dasylirion in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 28.
Tropicos.org 2019. Dasylirion. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 28 Jan. 2019.

Dasylirion is a genus of North American plants in the asparagus family, all native to Mexico, with the ranges of three species also extending into the south-western United States.[3] In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae[4]).

Dasylirion is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.[5]

Species[6][7][8][9]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution
	Dasylirion acrotrichum (Schiede) Zucc.	Hidalgo, Puebla, Jalisco
	Dasylirion berlandieri S. Wats.	Nuevo León, Tamaulipas
	Dasylirion cedrosanum Trel.	Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas
	Dasylirion durangense Trel.	Durango, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Coahuila
	Dasylirion gentryi Bogler	Sonora, Chihuahua
	Dasylirion glaucophyllum Hook.	Hidalgo
	Dasylirion graminifolium (Zucc.) Zucc.	Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Zacatecas
	Dasylirion leiophyllum Engelm. ex Trel. (syn. D. heteracanthum I.M.Johnst.)	Chihuahua, Coahuila, Texas, New Mexico
	Dasylirion longissimum Lem.	San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo
	Dasylirion longistylum J.F.Macbr.	San Luis Potosí
	Dasylirion lucidum Rose	Puebla, Oaxaca
	Dasylirion miquihuanense Bogler	Nuevo León, Tamaulipas
	Dasylirion occidentalis Bogler ex Hochstätter	Aguascalientes
	Dasylirion palaciosii Rzed.	San Luis Potosí
	Dasylirion parryanum Trel.	San Luis Potosí
	Dasylirion quadrangulatum S.Watson	Nuevo León, Tamaulipas
	Dasylirion sereke Bogler	Chihuahua
	Dasylirion serratifolium (Karw. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Zucc.	Oaxaca
	Dasylirion simplex Trel.	Durango
	Dasylirion texanum Scheele	Coahuila, Texas
	Dasylirion treleasei (Bogler) Hochstätter	San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo
	Dasylirion wheeleri S.Watson ex Rothr.	Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua

Formerly placed here

Nolina bigelovii (Torr.) S.Watson (as D. bigelovii Torr.)[9]

References

"Genus: Dasylirion Zucc". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-01-19. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
lectotype designated by A. Rehder, Bibliogr. Cult. Trees Shrubs 645 (1949)
Zuccarini, Joseph Gerhard. 1838. Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 6(33): 258-259 description in Latin, commentary in German (in Gothic script)
Chase, M.W.; Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), "A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 132–136, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x
Hernández-Quintero, J.D.; Reyes-Valdés, M.H.; Mendoza-Rodríguez, D.V.; Gómez-Martínez, M.; Rodríguez-Herrera, R. (2015). "Study of the mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of sotol (Dasylirion cedrosanum Trel.)". Phyton. 84: 107–112. doi:10.32604/phyton.2015.84.107.
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
"Dasylirion". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
The Plant List

"GRIN Species Records of Dasylirion". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2010-09-19.

Flora of North America: Dasylirion
Bogler, D. J. (1995). Systematics of Dasylirion: taxonomy and molecular phylogeny. Bol. Soc. Bot. México 56: 69–76.