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Agave abisaii A.Vázquez & Nieves – Mexico (Jalisco)

Agave acicularis Trel. – Cuba

Agave acklinicola Trel. – Bahamas
Agave × ajoensis W.C.Hodgs. – Pima County in Arizona = A. deserti var. simplex × A. schottii var. schottii

Agave aktites Gentry – Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora)

Agave albescens Trel. – Cuba
Agave alboaustralis (E.Solano & Ríos-Gómez) Thiede – Oaxaca
Agave albomarginata Gentry – northeastern Mexico

Agave albopilosa I.Cabral – Mexico (Nuevo León)

Agave americana L. – American Agave, American Century Plant, Century Plant, Maguey americano – Arizona, Texas, Mexico; naturalized in parts of Africa, Eurasia, Australia, South America various islands

Agave andreae Sahagún & A.Vázquez – Mexico (Michoacán)

Agave angustiarum Trel. – Mexico

Agave angustifolia Haw. – Mexico, Central America; naturalized in Spain, South Africa, Indian Subcontinent, various islands

Agave anomala Trel. – Bahamas, Cuba

Agave antillarum Descourt. – Cuba, Hispaniola

Agave apedicellata Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco, San Luis Potosí)
Agave applanata Lem. ex Jacobi – Mexico

Agave arcedianoensis Cházaro – Mexico (Jalisco)

Agave × arizonica Gentry & J.H.Weber = A. chrysantha × A. toumeyana var. bella – Arizona

Agave arubensis Hummelinck – Aruba
Agave asperrima Jacobi – Maguey spero, Rough Century Plant – Texas, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas

Agave atrovirens Karw. ex Salm-Dyck – Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz

Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck – Swan’s Neck Agave, Dragon Tree Agave, Foxtail Agave – Mexico; naturalised in southeastern Australia

Agave aurea Brandegee – Baja California Sur

Agave avellanidens Trel. – Baja California

Agave azurea R.H.Webb & G.D.Starr – Mexico (Baja California Sur)

Agave bracteosa

Agave bahamana Trel. – Bahamas

Agave beaulueriana Jacobi = Agave americana var. franzosinii

Agave bicolor (E.Solano & García-Mend.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Oaxaca)
Agave boldinghiana Trel. – Curaçao, Bonaire

Agave bovicornuta Gentry – Cowhorn Agave – Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora

Agave braceana Trel. – Bahamas (Abaco)

Agave bracteosa S.Watson ex Engelm. – Squid Agave – Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León)

Agave brevipetala Trel. – Hispaniola

Agave brevispina Trel. – Hispaniola

Agave brittoniana Trel. – Cuba

Agave brunnea S.Watson – NE. Mexico

Agave bulbulifera (Castillejos & E.Solano) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero)
Agave bulliana (Baker) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico

Agave chiapensis

Agave cacozela Trel. – Bahamas (Eleuthera)
Agave cajalbanensis A.Álvarez – Cuba
Agave calodonta A.Berger – extinct

Agave cantala (Haw.) Roxb. ex Salm-Dyck – Cantala, Maguey de la India – Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras

Agave capensis Gentry – Baja California Sur = Agave aurea var. capensis

Agave caribaeicola Trel. – Lesser Antilles

Agave caymanensis Proctor – Cayman Islands

Agave cerulata Trel. – Baja California

Agave chamelensis (E.J.Lott & Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco)
Agave chazaroi A.Vázquez & O.M.Valencia – Jalisco

Agave chiapensis Jacobi – Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala

Agave chrysantha Peebles – Golden Flowered Agave, Golden Flower Century Plant – Arizona

Agave chrysoglossa I.M.Johnst. – Baja California, Sonora

Agave cocui Trel. – Colombia, Venezuela (incl Isla Margarita), Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao

Agave coetocapnia (M.Roem.) Govaerts & Thiede – Mexico
Agave collina Greenm. – Morelos, Guerrero

Agave colorata Gentry – Mescal ceniza – Sinaloa, Sonora

Agave confertiflora Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Chihuahua)
Agave congesta Gentry – Chiapas

Agave convallis Trel. – Oaxaca

Agave cremnophila – Oaxaca[8]

Agave cundinamarcensis A.Berger – Colombia

Agave cupreata Trel. & A.Berger – Guerrero, Michoacán

Agave deserti

Agave dasylirioides Jacobi & C.D.Bouché – Morelos, México State

Agave datylio F.A.C.Weber – Baja California Sur

Agave debilis A.Berger – C. & SW. Mexico (to Hidalgo)
Agave decipiens Baker – False Sisal – Florida; naturalised in parts of Africa

Agave delamateri W.C.Hodgs. & Slauson – Arizona

Agave demeesteriana Jacobi – Sinaloa, Veracruz

Agave deserti Engelm. – Desert Century Plant, Desert Agave, Maguey de Desierto – Baja California, California, Arizona

Agave difformis A.Berger – Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí

Agave doctorensis L.Hern. & Magallán – Mexico (Querétaro)

Agave dolichantha Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán)
Agave durangensis Gentry – Durango, Zacatecas

Agave dussiana Trel. – Lesser Antilles
Agave eggersiana Trel. – Eggers’ Century Plant, St. Croix Agave – US Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. Thomas)

Agave ehrenbergii Jacobi – Cuba = Agave mitis Mart.

Agave ellemeetiana Jacobi – Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca)

Agave ensifera Jacobi

Agave evadens Trel. – Trinidad, Venezuelan Antilles (Isla Margarita)

Agave felgeri Gentry – Mescalito – Sonora

Agave filifera Salm-Dyck – Thread-leaf Agave – Querétaro to México State, Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí

Agave flexispina Trel. – Chihuahua, Durango

Agave fortiflora Gentry – Sonora

Agave fourcroydes Lem. – Henequen, Maguey Henequen, Mexican Sisal – Mexico, Guatemala; naturalized in West Indies, Italy, Canary Islands

Agave funkiana K.Koch & C.D.Bouché – Ixtle de Jaumav – Mexico (Tamaulipas to Chiapas)

Agave fusca (Ravenna) Thiede & Eggli – Guatemala
Agave guiengola

Agave galvaniae (A.Castañeda – Mexico (México State)
Agave garciae-mendozae Galván & L.Hern. – Hidalgo

Agave geminiflora (Tagl.) Ker Gawl. – Nayarit

Agave gentryi B.Ullrich – Nuevo León, Querétaro

Agave ghiesbreghtii Lem. ex Jacobi – Mexico, Guatemala

Agave gigantensis Gentry – Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur

Agave gilbertii A.Berger – Mexico

Agave × glomeruliflora (Engelm.) A.Berger = A. havardiana × A. lechuguilla – Coahuila, western Texas

Agave gomezpompae Cházaro & Jimeno-Sevilla – Veracruz

Agave gracielae Galvan & Zamudio – Mexico (Querétaro)

Agave gracilipes Trel. – Maguey de pastizal, Slimfoot Century Plant – Chihuahua, southern New Mexico, western Texas

Agave gracillima A.Berger – Mexico (Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit)
Agave graminifolia (Rose) Govaerts & Thiede – NE. Mexico (to Jalisco)
Agave grisea Trel. – Cuba

Agave guadalajarana Trel. – Maguey chato – Jalisco, Nayarit

Agave guerrerensis (Matuda) G.D.Rowley – Mexico (Guerrero)

Agave guiengola Gentry – Oaxaca

Agave guttata Jacobi & C.D.Bouché – NE. Mexico (to Jalisco)
Agave gypsophila Gentry – Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco

Agave harrisii Trel. – Jamaica

Agave hauniensis J.B.Petersen – C. Mexico (to Guerrero)
Agave havardiana Trel. – Havard’s Century Plant, Chisos Agave, Maguey de Havard – Chihuahua, Coahuila, Texas

Agave hiemiflora Gentry – Chiapas, Guatemala

Agave hookeri Jacobi – Jalisco, Michoacán

Agave horrida Lem. ex Jacobi – Morelos, Veracruz, Oaxaca

Agave howardii (Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco, Colima)
Agave hurteri Trel. – Guatemala

Agave impressa Gentry – Sinaloa

Agave inaequidens K.Koch – Mexico

Agave inaguensis Trel. – Bahamas (Inagua), Turks & Caicos Islands

Agave indagatorum Trel. – Bahamas (Watling Island)
Agave intermixta Trel. – Haiti

Agave involuta (McVaugh) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (S. Zacatecas, SE. Nayarit, Jalisco)
Agave isthmensis A.García-Mend. & F.Palma – Oaxaca, Chiapas

Agave jaiboli Gentry – Sonora, Chihuahua

Agave jaliscana (Rose) A.Berger – W. Mexico (to Durango)
Agave jarucoensis A.Álvarez – Cuba
Agave jimenoi Cházaro & A.Vázquez – Mexico (Veracruz)
Agave justosierrana (García-Mend.) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero)
Agave lechuguilla

Agave karatto Mill. – Lesser Antilles, Netherlands Antilles

Agave karwinskii Zucc. – Oaxaca, Puebla

Agave kavandivi García-Mend. & C.Chávez – Mexico (Oaxaca)

Agave kerchovei Lem. – Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla

Agave kewensis Jacobi – Chiapas

Agave kristenii A.Vázquez & Cházaro – Mexico (Michoacán)

Agave lagunae Trel. – Guatemala (Amatitlan)

Agave lechuguilla Torr. – Agave lecheguilla, Lecheguilla, Lechuguilla,

Maguey lechuguilla – northern Mexico, New Mexico, Texas

Agave × leopoldii W.Watson – AGM

Agave littoralis (García-Mend. – Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca)
Agave longibracteata (Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Michoacán)
Agave longiflora (Rose) G.D.Rowley – S. Texas to Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuebo León)
Agave longipes Trel. – JamaicaM
Agave macroacantha Zucc. – Puebla, Oaxaca

Agave maculata Regel – S. Texas to NE. Mexico

Agave madrensis Villarreal – Mexico (Nuevo León)

Agave manantlanicola Cuevas & Santana-Michel – Jalisco

Agave mapisaga Trel. – Mexico
Agave margaritae Brandegee – Baja California Sur
Agave maria-patriciae Cházaro & Arzaba – Mexico (Veracruz)
Agave marmorata Roezl – Puebla, Oaxaca
Agave maximiliana Baker – Mexico
Agave mckelveyana Gentry – Mckelvey Agave, McKelvey’s Century Plant – Arizona (Yavapai + Mohave Cos)
Agave melanacantha Lem. ex Jacobi – C. Cuba
Agave michoacana (M.Cedano – Mexico (Michoacán)
Agave microceps (Kimnach) A.Vázquez & Cházaro – Sinaloa
Agave millspaughii Trel. – Bahamas (Exuma)
Agave murpheyi
Agave minor Proctor – Puerto Rico
Agave missionum Trel. – Corita – Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Agave mitis Mart. – Hidalgo
Agave montana Villarreal – Nuevo León
Agave montium-sancticaroli García-Mend. – Tamaulipas
Agave moranii Gentry – Baja California
Agave multicolor (E.Solano & Dávila) Thiede – Mexico (Guanajuato)
Agave multifilifera Gentry – Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa
Agave murpheyi Gibson – Maguey Bandeado, Murphey Agave, Murphey’s Century Plant, Hohokam Agave – Arizona, Sonora
Agave nanchititlensis (Matuda) ined. – Mexico (México State)
Agave nashii Trel. – Bahamas (Inagua)
Agave nayaritensis Gentry – Sinaloa, Nayarit
Agave neglecta Small – wild century plant = Agave weberi
Agave neocernua Thiede – Jalisco
Agave neonelsonii Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Durango)
Agave neopringlei Thiede & Eggli – Mexico
Agave nickelsiae Rol.-Goss. – Coahuila
Agave nizandensis Cutak – Dwarf Octopus Agave – Oaxaca
Agave nuusaviorum García-Mend. – Oaxaca
Agave oaxacana (García-Mend. & E.Solano) Thiede – Mexico (Oaxaca)
Agave obscura Schiede ex Schltdl. – Mexico
Agave ocahui Gentry – Sonora
Agave offoyana De Smet ex Jacobi – Cuba (Villa Clara)
Agave ornithobroma Gentry – Maguey pajarito – Nayarit, Sinaloa
Agave oroensis Gentry – Zacatecas
Agave ortgiesiana (Baker) Trel. in L.H.Bailey – Colima, Jalisco
Agave oteroi G.D. Starr & T.J. Davis – Oaxaca
Agave ovatifolia G.D.Starr & Villarreal – Nuevo León
Agave pablocarrilloi A.Vázquez – Mexico (Colima)
Agave pachycentra Trel. – Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
Agave palmeri Engelm. – Maguey de tlalcoyote, Palmer Agave, Palmer Century Plant, Palmer’s Century Plant – Sonora, Chihuahua, Arizona, New Mexico
Agave palustris (Rose) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Durango, Nayarit)
Agave panamana Trel. – Panama
Agave parviflora
Agave paniculata (L.Hern. – Mexico (Yucatán)
Agave papyrocarpa Trel. – Cuba (Isla de la Juventud)
Agave parrasana A.Berger – Coahuila
Agave parryi Engelm. – Mezcal yapavai, Parry Agave, Parry’s Agave – Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
Agave parva (Aarón Rodr.) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero)
Agave parvidentata Trel. – El Salvador, Honduras
Agave parviflora Torr. in W.H.Emory – Maguey sbari, Smallflower Agave, Smallflower Century Plant, Little Princess Agave – Arizona, Sonora, Chihuahua
Agave pax Gir.-Cañas – Colombia
Agave peacockii Croucher – Puebla, Oaxaca
Agave pelona Gentry – Bald Agave – Sonora
Agave pendula Schnittsp. – Chiapas, Veracruz, Guatemala
Agave petiolata Trel. – Curaçao
Agave petrophila A.García-Mend. & E.Martínez – Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero
Agave petskinil (R.A.Orellana – Mexico (Yucatán)
Agave phillipsiana W.C.Hodgs. – Arizona (Coconino Co)
Agave pintilla S.González – Durango
Agave planifolia S.Watson – Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua)
Agave platyphylla (Rose) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Durango, Zacatecas, Jalisco)
Agave polianthes Thiede & Eggli – C. & S. Mexico
Agave polianthiflora Gentry – Chihuahua, Sonora
Agave polyacantha Haw. – Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz
Agave potatorum Zucc. – Drunkard Agave – Puebla, Oaxaca
Agave potosina B.L.Rob. & Greenm. – NE. Mexico
Agave potreriana Trel. – Mexico
Agave pratensis A.Berger – Mexico (Jalisco, Nayarit)
Agave pringlei Engelm. ex Baker – Mexico (N. Baja California)
Agave producta Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Guerrero)
Agave promontorii Trel. – Baja California Sur
Agave pubescens Regel & Ortgies – Mexico (Morelos, Oaxaca, Chiapas)
Agave × pumila De Smet ex Baker = A. asperrima × A. nickelsiae – Coahuila
Agave quilae (Art.Castro & Aarón Rodr.) Thiede & Govaerts – Mexico (Jalisco)
Agave revoluta Klotzsch – Mexico (México State)
Agave rhodacantha Trel. – Mexico
Agave rosei Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Nayarit)
Agave rovelliana Tod. – Texas
Agave rutteniae Hummelinck – Aruba
Agave rzedowskiana P.Carrillo – Sinaloa, Jalisco
Agave sisalana
Agave salmiana Otto ex Salm-Dyck – Pulque, Maguey, Maguey de montaña – Mexico; naturalized in South Africa, Canary Islands
Agave scabra Ortega – Mexico to Nicaragua
Agave scaposa Gentry – Oaxaca, Puebla
Agave schidigera Lem. – northern + central Mexico
Agave schneideriana A.Berger – Puebla
Agave schottii Engelm. – Maguey puercoesp n, Schott Agave, Schott’s Century Plant, Shindagger, Leather Agave – Sonora, Arizona, New Mexico
Agave sebastiana Greene – Baja California
Agave seemanniana Jacobi – Oaxaca, Chiapas, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras
Agave shaferi Trel. – Cuba
Agave shawii Engelm. – Coastal Agave, Maguey primavera – Baja California, California (San Diego Co)
Agave shrevei Gentry – Chihuahua, Sonora
Agave sileri (Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – SC. Texas to Mexico (Tamaulipas)
Agave singuliflora (S.Watson) A.Berger – N. Mexico
Agave sisalana Perrine – Maguey de Sisal, Sisal, Sisal Hemp – Chiapas; widely cultivated for fiber; naturalized in Spain, Ecuador, Brazil, Queensland, Central America, parts of Asia + Africa, various islands
Agave sobolifera Houtt. – Cuba, Jamaica
Agave sobria Brandegee – Baja California Sur
Agave spicata Cav. – Hidalgo
Agave stictata Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (México State, Guerrero, Oaxaca)
Agave striata Zucc. – northeastern Mexico
Agave stricta Salm-Dyck – Oaxaca, Puebla
Agave stringens Trel. – Jalisco
Agave subsimplex Trel. – Sonora
Agave tequilana
Agave tecta Trel. – Guatemala
Agave temacapulinensis A.Vázquez & Cházaro – Mexico (Jalisco)
Agave tenuifolia Zamudio & E.Sánchez – Querétaro
Agave tequilana F.A.C.Weber – Mezcal azul tequilero, Tequila Agave, Weber Blue Agave – Mexico
Agave thomasiae Trel. – Guatemala
Agave titanota Gentry – Puebla, Oaxaca
Agave toumeyana Trel. – Toumey Agave, Toumey’s Century Plant – Arizona
Agave triangularis Jacobi – Puebla, Oaxaca
Agave tubulata Trel. – Cuba
Agave turneri R.H.Webb & Salazar-Ceseña – Baja California
Agave victoriae-reginae
Agave umbrophila (García-Mend.) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca)
Agave underwoodii Trel. – Cuba
Agave undulata Klotzsch – Mexico (Tamaulipas)
Agave univittata Haw. – Mexico, Texas
Agave utahensis Engelm. in S.Watson – Utah Agave – Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona
Agave valenciana Cházaro & A.Vázquez – Jalisco
Agave variegata Jacobi – S. Texas to Mexico
Agave vazquezgarciae Cházaro & J.A.Lomelí – Jalisco
Agave vera-cruz Mill. – Veracruz, Oaxaca; naturalized in Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, various islands
Agave verdensis W.C.Hodgs. & Salywon – Arizona
Agave verhoekiae (García-Mend.) Thiede – Mexico (Oaxaca)
Agave vicina Trel. – Netherlands Antilles, Venezuelan Antilles
Agave victoriae-reginae T.Moore – Queen Victoria’s Agave – Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Durango
Agave vilmoriniana A.Berger – Octopus Agave – Mexico
Agave virginica L. – C. & E. U.S.A. to NE. Mexico
Agave vivipara L. – Netherlands Antilles, Venezuelan Antilles; naturalised in parts of Australia + Africa
Agave vizcainoensis Gentry – Baja California Sur
Agave wallisii Jacobi – Colombia
Agave warelliana Baker – Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas
Agave weberi J.F.Cels ex J.Poiss. – Maguey liso, Weber’s Century Plant, Weber Agave – San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas; naturalized in southern Texas
Agave wercklei F.A.C.Weber ex Wercklé – Costa Rica; naturalised in parts of Africa
Agave wildingii Tod. – Cuba
Agave wocomahi Gentry – Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Jalisco
Agave xylonacantha Salm-Dyck – Century Plant, Maguey diente de tiburn – Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi
Agave yavapaiensis W.C.Hodgs. & Salywon – Arizona
Agave zapopanensis (E.Solano & Ríos-Gómez) Thiede – Mexico (Jalisco)
Agave zebra Gentry – Sonora
Agave argyrophylla, syn. of Furcraea parmentieri
Agave aspera, syn. of Furcraea hexapetala
Agave australis, syn. of Furcraea hexapetala
Agave bulbosa, syn. of Furcraea foetida
Agave campanulata, syn. of Furcraea tuberosa
Agave commelyni, syn. of Furcraea foetida
Agave cubensis, syn. of Furcraea hexapetala
Agave foetida, syn. of Furcraea foetida
Agave funifera, syn. of Hesperaloe funifera
Agave gigantea, syn. of Furcraea foetida
Agave hexapetala, syn. of Furcraea hexapetala
Agave madagascariensis, syn. of Furcraea foetida
Agave odorata, syn. of Furcraea hexapetala
Agave spinosa, syn. of Furcraea tuberosa
Agave toneliana, syn. of Furcraea parmentieri
Agave tuberosa Mill. 1768 not (L.) Thiede & Eggli 1999, syn. of Furcraea tuberosa