The plant grows geophytically with dark green to brownish bodies that are almost completely hidden in the ground and have a diameter of 3 to 8 centimeters.

The warts protruding from the base of the shoot are spreading, elongated, 2 to 4 centimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters wide.

A. agavoides has a narrow distribution in the rocky limestone hills at about 1200 meters in elevation in Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

[7] The specific epithet agavoides is derived from the Greek suffix -oides for 'resemble' and the genus Agave and refers to the appearance of the species.

[1] It is illegal to collect the cactus in Mexico as it is protected by the state under the national list of species at risk of extinction, NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010.