Dasylirion

Dasylirion (commonly referred to as sotolsorhair-trees) is a genus of North American flowering succulent plants in the asparagus family, all nativetoMexico and the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas).^[3] In the APG III classification system, Dasylirion is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae).^[4]

Dasylirion

Dasylirion wheeleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Asparagaceae
Subfamily:	Nolinoideae
Genus:	Dasylirion Zucc.^[1]
Type species
D. graminifolium (Zucc.) Zucc.^[2]

Dasylirion are dioecious, with the male and female flowers on separate plants.^[5]

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	Oaxaca, Puebla
	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	Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
	Dasylirion wheeleri S.Watson ex Rothr.	Arizona, New Mexico, Texas; Chihuahua, Sonora

Nolina bigelovii (Torr.) S.Watson (asD. bigelovii Torr.)^[9]

^ "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 (inGothic 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

^ ^a ^b "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.

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