''Beaucarnea glassiana'' is a species of flowering plant belonging to the genus ''

Beaucarnea ''Beaucarnea'' is a genus of flowering plants native plant, native to Mexico and Central America. In the APG III system, APG III classification system, it is placed in the family (biology), family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the ...

,'' which is a member of the

Asparagaceae Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, '' Asparagus officinalis''. This family includes both ...

family. ''Beaucarnea glassiana'' forms a

caudex A caudex (: caudices) of a plant is a stem, but the term is also used to mean a rootstock and particularly a basal stem structure from which new growth arises.pages 456 and 695 In the strict sense of the term, meaning a stem, "caudex" is most ...

geophyte A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water. Storage organs often grow underground, where they are better protected from attack by herbivores. Plants that have ...

and is native to the Mexican state of

Guanajuato Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato, is one of the 32 states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Guanajuato, 46 municipalities and its cap ...

where it grows in areas of

tropical deciduous forest The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive ...

and submontane central Mexican matorral in the

Sierra Madre Oriental The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that ...

near Xichú. ''Beaucarnea glassiana'' was originally named ''Calibanus glassianus'', and along with ''Beaucarnea hookeri'' (previously ''Calibanus hookeri''), these were the only two species that made up the genus ''Calibanus''. Both species were moved to the genus ''Beaucarnea'' after molecular (phylogenetic) and morphological evidence demonstrated that both species have a very closely relationship to those contained in the genus ''Beaucarnea'', leaving ''Calibanus'' as a now defunct genus.

References

Plants described in 2003 Nolinoideae Flora of Mexico Flora of Guanajuato {{Asparagaceae-stub