Agave macroacantha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Asparagaceae
Subfamilia: Agavoideae
Genus: Agave
Species: Agave macroacantha

Agave macroacantha Zucc., 1832

Homotypic
- Agave flavescens var. macroacantha (Zucc.) Jacobi, Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 20: 500 (1864).
Heterotypic
- Agave pugioniformis Zucc., Flora 15(2 Beibl.): 97 (1832).
- Agave flavescens Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck.: 8 (1834).
- Agave concinna Lem., Hort. Vanhoutt. 1(2): 23 (1846).
- Agave besseriana De Smet ex Jacobi, Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 21: 155 (1865).
- Agave linearis Jacobi, Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 12: 179 (1869).
- Agave subfalcata Jacobi, Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 12: 179 (1869).
- Agave sudburyensis Baker, Gard. Chron., n.s., 8: 137 (1877).
- Agave oligophylla Baker, Gard. Chron., n.s., 9: 492 (1878).
- Agave integrifolia Baker, Handb. Amaryll.: 185 (1888).
- Agave macroacantha var. integrifolia Trel., Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 18: 251 (1907).

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Northern America Regional: Mexico Mexico Central; Mexico Southwest References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Agave macroacantha in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 04. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Agave macroacantha. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 04 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Agave macroacantha in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 04.
Tropicos.org 2019. Agave macroacantha. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 Jan. 2019.

English: black-spined agave, large-thorned agave