Yucca madrensis

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|status = DD

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Salywon, A. |author2=Hodgson, W. |author3=Puente, R. |author4=Clary, K. |author5=Solano, E. |author6=Ayala-Hernández, M.M. |date=2020 |title=Yucca madrensis |volume=2020 |page=e.T117428165A117470097 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T117428165A117470097.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

|taxon = Yucca madrensis

|image = Yucca madrensis fh 0604 MEX B.jpg

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|authority = H. S. Gentry}}

Yucca madrensis H. S. GentryGentry, Howard Scott. USDA Agriculture Handbook no. 399. Agave Family in Sonora. 159, fig. 62. 1972. is a plant in the genus Yucca in the family Asparagaceae. It is native to a mountainous region in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. It has also been reported from Arizona[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242102068 Flora of North America vol 26 p 428] It grows on steep, rocky slopes in pine-oak forests.CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, México D.F.

Yucca madrensis has indehiscent fruits and serrate leaves. This suggests relationships with Y. rigida Trel. and Y. schottii Engelm. It differs from both those species by several characters such as narrowness of the leaves, glabrous inflorescence, and short stature.[http://www.agavaceae.com/botanik/pflanzen/botanzeige_scan_en.asp?gnr=230&scan=25010-1&cat=5&name=Yucca Laferrière, Joseph E. 1990. The taxonomy and ethnobotany of Yucca madrensis. Cactus & Succulent Journal (U.S.) 62:95-96.]