Asparagaceae

Agave L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 323 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Central & E. U.S.A. to Venezuela, Caribbean.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, California, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Jamaica, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Utah, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Ascension, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, Cambodia, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Corse, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Free State, Gambia, Gilbert Is., Greece, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, India, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Libya, Line Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Portugal, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Sardegna, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Swaziland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, West Himalaya, Yugoslavia

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2020). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.536135. epublication.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
United Kingdom 19053.000 No

Sources

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China

    • The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images