Publication: Agaves Cont. N. Amer. 564. 1992
Description
The plant was named after Lyster H. Dewey, fiber specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture early in the century.
Origin and Habitat
Cultivated in fiber plantations, mainly in the state of Tamaulipas, but Trelease also lists it from Veracruz.
Bibliography
Major references and further lectures
- Howard Scott Gentry “Agaves of Continental North America” University of Arizona Press, 01 February 2004