Agave obscura from Gentry (1982) has been transferred to Agave horrida ssp. perotensis because, through the work of Chazaro Basanez, it was determined that Agave obscura (Schiede) was actually what Gentry called Agave polyacantha var. xalapensis. The name Agave obscura has priority, so A. polyacanthais now known as A. obscura. Because that name could not be used for two very different plants, so in 1990 Ullrich determined that the entity Gentry called Agave obscura was in fact a subspecies of Agave horrida.
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Originally Posted by GermanStar
Will the real A. obscura please stand up? I just brought home a 5 gallon plant marked A. obscura that looks identical to the photo below (only healthier and larger), and radically different from the other pics in this thread.
Agave obscura
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