Description: Up to 50-80(-100) cm. Slow-growing, short-stemmed, widely surculose, seldom flowering, rigid rosettes, forming open clones; When this agave matures, its leaves are stout, and clustered together, creating a starburst effect.
Leaves: Olive-green, light yellowish green or bright apple-green or finely flecked with brownish red, finely asperous with a broad yellowish band running down the center of each leaf., mature leaves deltoid-lanceolate (dagger-shaped) 30-60 x 5-7 (mid-leaf) cm, rigid, thick at base, concavo-convex, straight, When stressed by drought and cool weather, the leaves turn shades of red. Leaves are variable in size and shape. Margin corneous continuous, 1-2 mm wide, grayish, straight, with or without teeth, the teeth small, few (2-3 mm long), and remote (3-5 cm apart), or large, 5-9 mm long, 1-2 cm apart, gray, straight or curved. Terminal spine 2-4 cm cm long, conical to subulate, usually straight, grayish, grooved above, somewhat keeled below.
Remarks: This taxon is recognizable by its thick, rigid, deltoid, olivaceous leaves. Toothless forms are also common. The leaves of this species are quite variable depending on clones