Hesperoyucca

Taxobox
name = "Hesperoyucca"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Hesperoyucca whipplei"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Agavaceae
genus = "Hesperoyucca"
genus_authority = (Engelmann) Baker
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"Hesperoyucca" is a small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Agavaceae, closely related to and recently split from "Yucca", but distinct in having dehiscent fruit and a scape more than 2.5 cm diameter with reflexed (not erect) bracts. It is also distinct in DNA analysis. The genus is native to Mexico and the southwestern United States.

;Species
*"Hesperoyucca newberryi" (syn. "H. whipplei" subsp. "newberryi", "Yucca newberryi")
*"Hesperoyucca peninsularis"
*"Hesperoyucca whipplei" (syn. "Yucca whipplei"). Our Lord's Candle or Spanish Bayonet.

References

* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=115253 Flora of North America: "Hesperoyucca"]