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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Yucca faxoniana
|accepted_authority=Sargent
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Man. Trees,
|place=121. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|common_names=Faxon yucca;Spanish dagger
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Yucca australis
|authority=Trelease
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Yucca macrocarpa
|authority=Coville
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Samuela faxoniana
|authority=Trelease
}}
|hierarchy=Agavaceae;Yucca;Yucca faxoniana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Agavaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Yucca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Yucca faxoniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 424
|treatment_page=page 427
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>solitary, erect, arborescent, 2.5–6.9 m, including inflorescence. <b>Stems</b> 1, simple or with 2–4 branches, to 5.1 m, average diam. 32 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blade erect, yellowish green, 43–115 × 3.1–8.4 cm, rigid, smooth, glabrous, margins conspicuous, curling, filiferous, brown. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect, paniculate, often with proximal branches arising beyond rosettes, broadly ovoid, 5.5–25.5 dm, glabrous; peduncle 0.3–0.6 m. <b>Flowers</b> pendent, 4.4–12.4 cm; perianth campanulate; tepals connate basally into floral cup 1–32 mm, white to greenish white, ovate, 3.9–10.8 cm; filaments averaging 2.2 cm from base of tepals, glabrous; anthers 1–6 mm; pistil 2.8–8 × 0.7 cm; ovary ca. 4.5–5 times longer than wide; style 4.5 mm; stigmas distinct. <b>Fruits</b> pendent, baccate, indehiscent, elongate, 3.6–13.6 × 1.8–3.6 cm, fleshy, succulent. <b>Seeds</b> black, 7.7 mm diam., 2.9 mm thick, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Rocky slopes, flat plains
|elevation=800–2100 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>Trelease described the genus Samuela based on two species, Samuela faxoniana and S. carnerosana. K. H. Clary’s DNA study (1997) shows them to be closely related but genetically distinct.</p><!--
--><p>Yucca faxoniana is often used for landscaping in arid and semiarid regions of Texas and New Mexico.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Yucca faxoniana
|author=
|authority=Sargent
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Samuela faxoniana
|basionyms=Yucca australis;Yucca macrocarpa
|family=Agavaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Rocky slopes, flat plains
|elevation=800–2100 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Man. Trees,
|publication year=1905
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_872.xml
|genus=Yucca
|species=Yucca faxoniana
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