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<p><i><a href="Agave_deserti" title="Agave deserti">Agave deserti</a></i> mit Blütenstandsrest<br>im Palm Canyon im Süden von <a href="Palm_Springs_(Kalifornien)" title="Palm Springs (Kalifornien)">Palm Springs</a> (<a href="Kalifornien" title="Kalifornien">Kalifornien</a>)
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<td><a href="Bedecktsamer" title="Bedecktsamer">Bedecktsamer</a> (Magnoliopsida)
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<td><a href="Spargelartige" title="Spargelartige">Spargelartige</a> (Asparagales)
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<td><a href="Spargelgew%C3%A4chse" title="Spargelgewächse">Spargelgewächse</a> (Asparagaceae)
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<td><a href="Agavengew%C3%A4chse" title="Agavengewächse">Agavengewächse</a> (Agavoideae)
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<td class="Person"><a href="Carl_von_Linn%C3%A9" title="Carl von Linné">L.</a>
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<p>Die <b>Agaven</b> (<i>Agave</i>) sind eine <a href="Gattung_(Biologie)" title="Gattung (Biologie)">Pflanzengattung</a> in der <a href="Familie_(Biologie)" title="Familie (Biologie)">Unterfamilie</a> der <a href="Agavengew%C3%A4chse" title="Agavengewächse">Agavengewächse</a> (Agavoideae) innerhalb der <a href="Familie_(Biologie)" title="Familie (Biologie)">Familie</a> der <a href="Spargelgew%C3%A4chse" title="Spargelgewächse">Spargelgewächse</a> (Asparagaceae). Der <a href="Nomenklatur_(Biologie)" title="Nomenklatur (Biologie)">botanische Name</a> <i>Agave</i> leitet sich vom <a href="Altgriechische_Sprache" title="Altgriechische Sprache">altgriechischen</a> Wort ἀγαυός (agavos) für <i>edel</i>, <i>prachtvoll</i> oder <i>erhaben</i> ab. Agave, häufig <a href="Agaue" title="Agaue">Agaue</a> geschrieben, ist der Name einer Tochter von <a href="Kadmos" title="Kadmos">Kadmos</a> und <a href="Harmonia" title="Harmonia">Harmonia</a> aus der griechischen Mythologie, die gelegentlich als namensgebend genannt wird.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Agaven werden manchmal als <b>Jahrhundertpflanze</b> (von engl. <i>Century Plant</i>) bezeichnet, da sie nur einmal blühen und bis zur Ausbildung eines Blütenstands mehrere Jahrzehnte vergehen können.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vegetative_Merkmale">Vegetative Merkmale</h3></div>
<p>Agaven sind <a href="Xerophyt" title="Xerophyt">xerophytische</a>, <a href="Ausdauernde_Pflanze" title="Ausdauernde Pflanze">ausdauernde</a> oder <a href="Hapaxanthe_Pflanze" title="Hapaxanthe Pflanze">hapaxanthe</a> und meist <a href="Sukkulente" title="Sukkulente">blattsukkulente</a> Rosettenpflanzen. Sie wachsen terrestrisch oder sehr selten <a href="Epiphyt" title="Epiphyt">epiphytisch</a>. Die kleinen bis sehr großen <a href="Rosette_(Botanik)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosette (Botanik)">Rosetten</a> sind stammlos oder ihr <a href="Sprossachse" title="Sprossachse">Stamm</a> ist sehr kurz. Der selten verlängerte Stamm ist dick, einzeln oder verzweigt und manchmal <a href="Rhizom" title="Rhizom">rhizomatös</a>. Aus dem Rhizom entstehen mitunter Tochterpflanzen.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Die meist langlebigen, mehr oder weniger dicken und faserigen <a href="Blatt_(Pflanze)" title="Blatt (Pflanze)">Laubblätter</a> sind vorwiegend sukkulent und xeromorph (in der Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> etwas weich und einjährig). Die <a href="Blattspreite" class="mw-redirect" title="Blattspreite">Blattspreite</a> ist linealisch bis lanzettlich bis eiförmig. An der Blattspitze sitzt ein mehr oder weniger stark entwickelter <a href="Dorn_(Botanik)" title="Dorn (Botanik)">Dorn</a> (bei der Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> ein weiches Spitzchen). Die ganzrandigen <a href="Blattform#Spreitenrand" title="Blattform">Blattränder</a> sind winzig bis stark gezähnt oder fadentragend.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Die kräftigen und faserigen, gelegentlich spindlig verdickten <a href="Wurzel_(Pflanze)" title="Wurzel (Pflanze)">Wurzeln</a> sind flach ausgebreitet.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blütenstände_und_Blüten"><span id="Bl.C3.BCtenst.C3.A4nde_und_Bl.C3.BCten"></span>Blütenstände und Blüten</h3></div>




<p>Der <a href="Bl%C3%BCtenstand" title="Blütenstand">Blütenstand</a> kann bis zu 12&nbsp;Meter hoch werden. Die Teilblütenstände sind <a href="Bl%C3%BCtenstand#Zymöse_Teilblütenstände" title="Blütenstand">zymös</a>, haben entweder etwas kurz <a href="Pedicellus" title="Pedicellus">gestielte</a> und meist wenige (selten nur paarige) <a href="Bl%C3%BCte" title="Blüte">Blüten</a> (Untergattung <i>Littaea</i>) oder lang gestielte, oft mehrfach zusammengesetzte, mit zahlreichen mehr oder weniger dicht gestellten Blüten (Untergattung <i>Agave</i>) oder fast ungestielte, paarige bis einzelne Blüten (Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i>). Der Blütenstand trägt manchmal <a href="Bulbillen" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulbillen">Bulbillen</a>. Das röhrig bis glockige <a href="Perigon" class="mw-redirect" title="Perigon">Perigon</a> ist meist gelb oder grünlich bis bräunlich, seltener auch rötlich. Die <a href="Tepal" class="mw-redirect" title="Tepal">Tepalen</a> sind an der Basis meist verwachsen und bilden eine Perigonröhre, deren Länge sehr variiert und die in unterschiedlich langen Perigonzipfeln endet.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Die <a href="Staubblatt" title="Staubblatt">Staubblätter</a> ragen aus der Perigonröhre heraus und haben längliche, bewegliche <a href="Staubbeutel" class="mw-redirect" title="Staubbeutel">Staubbeutel</a>. Die fadendünnen <a href="Staubfaden" class="mw-redirect" title="Staubfaden">Staubfäden</a> sind entweder in der Röhre, an der Röhrenmündung oder an der Tepalenbasis angeheftet. Der unterständige, dreifächrige <a href="Fruchtknoten" title="Fruchtknoten">Fruchtknoten</a> ist dickwandig. Der verlängerte, fadendünne <a href="Griffel_(Botanik)" title="Griffel (Botanik)">Griffel</a> ist röhrig und bei der Blütenöffnung noch nicht voll entfaltet. Die warzendrüsige <a href="Narbe_(Botanik)" title="Narbe (Botanik)">Narbe</a> ist dreilappig.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Früchte_und_Samen"><span id="Fr.C3.BCchte_und_Samen"></span>Früchte und Samen</h3></div>
<p>Die <a href="Frucht" title="Frucht">Früchte</a> sind dreikammerige, zur Spitze oft schmal verlängerte, <a href="Lokulizide_Kapsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lokulizide Kapsel">lokulizide Kapseln</a>, die die abgeflachten schwarzen <a href="Same_(Pflanze)" title="Same (Pflanze)">Samen</a> enthalten.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Zytologie">Zytologie</h3></div>
<p>Die <a href="Chromosomen" class="mw-redirect" title="Chromosomen">Chromosomenbasiszahl</a> ist x = 30.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Agaven erstreckt sich vom Süden der <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">Vereinigten Staaten</a> über <a href="Mexiko" title="Mexiko">Mexiko</a> durch ganz <a href="Mittelamerika" title="Mittelamerika">Mittelamerika</a> (einschließlich der gesamten <a href="Karibik" title="Karibik">Karibik</a>) bis nach <a href="Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a> und reicht bis in das nördliche Südamerika (<a href="Kolumbien" title="Kolumbien">Kolumbien</a> und <a href="Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>) hinein. Die größte Artenvielfalt ist in den mexikanischen Bundesstaaten <a href="Hidalgo_(Bundesstaat)" title="Hidalgo (Bundesstaat)">Hidalgo</a>, <a href="Puebla_(Bundesstaat)" title="Puebla (Bundesstaat)">Puebla</a> und <a href="Oaxaca" title="Oaxaca">Oaxaca</a> anzutreffen. Agaven werden weltweit in tropischen, subtropischen und frostfreien Klimaten kultiviert und sind in den entsprechenden Ländern oft eingebürgert.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Systematik">Systematik</h2></div>
<p>Die <a href="Erstbeschreibung" title="Erstbeschreibung">Erstbeschreibung</a> der Agaven wurde 1753 von <a href="Carl_von_Linn%C3%A9" title="Carl von Linné">Carl von Linné</a> veröffentlicht.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ihre <a href="Typus_(Nomenklatur)" title="Typus (Nomenklatur)">Typusart</a> ist <i><a href="Agave_americana" title="Agave americana">Agave americana</a>.</i>
</p><p>Die Gattung <i>Agave</i> <a href="Sensu_lato" class="mw-redirect" title="Sensu lato">sensu lato</a> wird in folgende drei Untergattungen untergliedert:<sup id="cite_ref-thiede4-8_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede4-8-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>Untergattung <i>Agave</i></li>
<li>Untergattung <i>Littaea</i> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r261921330">
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<li>Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Salisb.) Baker</span></li></ul>
<p>Bei der Untergattung <i>Agave</i> besteht der Blütenstand aus lang gestielten, häufig mehrfach zusammengesetzten Teilblütenständen mit zahlreichen, mehr oder weniger dicht angeordneten Blüten. Bei der Untergattung <i>Littaea</i> setzt sich der Blütenstand aus mehr oder weniger kurz gestielten Teilblütenständen mit meist wenigen (selten nur paarigen) Blüten zusammen. Die Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> umfasst die ehemals eigenständigen Gattungen <i>Manfreda</i>, <i>Polianthes</i> und <i>Prochnyanthes</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-thiede4-8_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede4-8-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Die Untergattungen werden wie folgt untergliedert:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>Untergattung <i>Littaea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Tagl.) Baker</span>
<ul><li>Sektion <i>Juncineae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Inermes</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Choritepalae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Littaea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Tagl.) Benth.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Parviflorae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Micracanthae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Heteracanthae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Urceolatae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Untergattung <i>Agave</i>
<ul><li>Sektion <i>Agave</i></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Salmianae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Verloove &amp; Thiede</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Sisalanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Crenatae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) B.Ullrich</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Campaniflorae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Umbelliflorae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Rigidae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Baker) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Ditepalae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Deserticolae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Conicae</i> <span class="Person h-card">R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Intermediae</i> <span class="Person h-card">R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Parryanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Hibernicae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Marmoratae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Guatemalenses</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) B.Ullrich</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Antillanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Antillares</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Bahamanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Caribaeae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Inaguenses</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Hochstätter</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Viviparae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Baker) Verloove &amp; Thiede</span></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Columbianae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Salisbury) Baker</span>
<ul><li>Sektion <i>Herbaceae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li>Serie <i>Brunneae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Serie <i>Scabraea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Serie <i>Guttatae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Serie <i>Virginicae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Serie <i>Yucatanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Polianthes</i> <span class="Person h-card">(L.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li>Serie <i>Polianthes</i> <span class="Person h-card">(L.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li>Serie <i>Bravoa</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Lex.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arten">Arten</h3></div>
<p>Die Gattung der Agaven umfasst die folgenden Arten:<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p>
<ul><li>Untergattung <i>Littaea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Tagl.) Baker</span>
<ul><li>Sektion <i>Juncineae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_albopilosa" title="Agave albopilosa">Agave albopilosa</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">I.Cabral, Villarreal &amp; A.E.Estrada</span></li>
<li><i>Agave cremnophila</i> <span class="Person h-card">G.D.Starr, Etter &amp; Kristen</span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Agave cryptica</i> <span class="Person h-card">G.D.Starr &amp; T.J.Davis</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_dasylirioides" title="Agave dasylirioides">Agave dasylirioides</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi &amp; C.D.Bouché</span></li>
<li><i>Agave gracielae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Galvan &amp; Zamudio</span></li>
<li><i>Agave kavandivi</i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; C.Chávez</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_petrophila" title="Agave petrophila">Agave petrophila</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; E.Martínez</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_rzedowskiana" title="Agave rzedowskiana">Agave rzedowskiana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">P.Carrillo, Vega &amp; R.Delgad.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_striata" title="Agave striata">Agave striata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Zucc.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave striata</i> subsp. <i>falcata</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Engelm.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave striata</i> subsp. <i>striata</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_stricta" title="Agave stricta">Agave stricta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_tenuifolia" title="Agave tenuifolia">Agave tenuifolia</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Zamudio &amp; E.Sánchez</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Inermes</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_attenuata" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave attenuata">Agave attenuata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave attenuata</i> subsp. <i>attenuata</i></li>
<li><i>Agave attenuata</i> subsp. <i>dentata</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Roezl) B.Ullrich</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_chazaroi" title="Agave chazaroi">Agave chazaroi</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez &amp; O.M.Valencia</span></li>
<li><i>Agave chrysoglossa</i> <span class="Person h-card">I.M.Johnst.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave gilbertii</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_manantlanicola" title="Agave manantlanicola">Agave manantlanicola</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Cuevas &amp; Santana Mich.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_nizandensis" title="Agave nizandensis">Agave nizandensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Cutak</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_ocahui" title="Agave ocahui">Agave ocahui</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave ocahui</i> var. <i>longifolia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave ocahui</i> var. <i>ocahui</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i>Agave spicata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Cav.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_vazquezgarciae" title="Agave vazquezgarciae">Agave vazquezgarciae</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro &amp; J.A.Lomelí</span></li>
<li><i>Agave vilmoriniana</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Choritepalae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_bracteosa" title="Agave bracteosa">Agave bracteosa</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">S.Watson ex Engelm.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave ellemeetiana</i> <span class="Person h-card">K.Koch</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave ellemeetiana</i> subsp. <i>ellemeetiana</i></li>
<li><i>Agave ellemeetiana</i> subsp. <i>subdentata</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_guiengola" title="Agave guiengola">Agave guiengola</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave gypsicola</i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; D.Sandoval</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Littaea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Tagl.) Benth.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave colimana</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_felgeri" title="Agave felgeri">Agave felgeri</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_filifera" title="Agave filifera">Agave filifera</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li>
<li><i>Agave geminiflora</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Tagl.) Ker Gawl.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_microceps" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave microceps">Agave microceps</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Kimnach) A.Vázquez &amp; Cházaro</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_multifilifera" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave multifilifera">Agave multifilifera</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_ornithobroma" title="Agave ornithobroma">Agave ornithobroma</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_schidigera" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave schidigera">Agave schidigera</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Lem.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Parviflorae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_parviflora" title="Agave parviflora">Agave parviflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Torr.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave parviflora</i> subsp. <i>densiflora</i> <span class="Person h-card">G.D.Starr &amp; T.Van Devender</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parviflora</i> subsp. <i>flexiflora</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parviflora</i> subsp. <i>parviflora</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_polianthiflora" title="Agave polianthiflora">Agave polianthiflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_schottii" title="Agave schottii">Agave schottii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave schottii</i> var. <i>atricha</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave schottii</i> var. <i>schottii</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_toumeyana" title="Agave toumeyana">Agave toumeyana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave toumeyana</i> subsp. <i>bella</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Breitung) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave toumeyana</i> subsp. <i>toumeyana</i></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Micracanthae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave chiapensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i>Agave gomezpompae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro &amp; Jimeno-Sevilla</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Agave jimenoi</i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro &amp; A.Vázquez</span></li>
<li><i>Agave maria-patriciae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro &amp; Arzaba</span><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Agave mitis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Mart.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave obscura</i> <span class="Person h-card">Schiede</span></li>
<li><i>Agave pendula</i> <span class="Person h-card">Schnittsp.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave warelliana</i> <span class="Person h-card">De Smet ex T.Moore &amp; Mast.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave wendtii</i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Heteracanthae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_albomarginata" title="Agave albomarginata">Agave albomarginata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_angustiarum" title="Agave angustiarum">Agave angustiarum</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_arcedianoensis" title="Agave arcedianoensis">Agave arcedianoensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro, O.M.Valencia &amp; A.Vázquez</span></li>
<li><i>Agave convallis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_difformis" title="Agave difformis">Agave difformis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave ensifera</i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_funkiana" title="Agave funkiana">Agave funkiana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">K.Koch &amp; C.D.Bouché</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_garciae-mendozae" title="Agave garciae-mendozae">Agave garciae-mendozae</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Galvan &amp; L.Hern.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave garciaruizii</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez, Hern.-Vera &amp; Padilla-Lepe</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_ghiesbreghtii" title="Agave ghiesbreghtii">Agave ghiesbreghtii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Verschaff.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave horrida</i> <span class="Person h-card">Lem. ex Jacobi</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave horrida</i> subsp. <i>horrida</i></li>
<li><i>Agave horrida</i> subsp. <i>perotensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">B.Ullrich</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_impressa" title="Agave impressa">Agave impressa</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_kerchovei" title="Agave kerchovei">Agave kerchovei</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Lem.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_lechuguilla" title="Agave lechuguilla">Agave lechuguilla</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Torr.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave lophantha</i> <span class="Person h-card">Schiede</span></li>
<li><i>Agave megalodonta</i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; D.Sandoval</span></li>
<li><i>Agave nickelsiae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Rol.-Goss.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_pelona" title="Agave pelona">Agave pelona</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_pintilla" title="Agave pintilla">Agave pintilla</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">S.González, M.González &amp; Reséndiz</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_potrerana" title="Agave potrerana">Agave potrerana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave quiotepecensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; S.Franco</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_titanota" title="Agave titanota">Agave titanota</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_triangularis" title="Agave triangularis">Agave triangularis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_victoriae-reginae" title="Agave victoriae-reginae">Agave victoriae-reginae</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">T.Moore</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave victoriae-reginae</i> subsp. <i>swobodae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Halda</span></li>
<li><i>Agave victoriae-reginae</i> subsp. <i>victoriae-reginae</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_xylonacantha" title="Agave xylonacantha">Agave xylonacantha</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Urceolatae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_utahensis" title="Agave utahensis">Agave utahensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave utahensis</i> subsp. <i>kaibabensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(McKelvey) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave utahensis</i> subsp. <i>utahensis</i></li>
<li><i>Agave utahensis</i> var. <i>eborispina</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hester) Breitung</span></li>
<li><i>Agave utahensis</i> var. <i>nevadensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm. ex Greenm. &amp; Roush</span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Untergattung <i>Agave</i>
<ul><li>Sektion <i>Agave</i>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_americana" title="Agave americana">Agave americana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">L.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave americana</i> subsp. <i>americana</i></li>
<li><i>Agave americana</i> subsp. <i>protamericana</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave americana</i> var. <i>expansa</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Jacobi) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave americana</i> var. <i>oaxacensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_asperrima" title="Agave asperrima">Agave asperrima</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave asperrima</i> subsp. <i>asperrima</i></li>
<li><i>Agave asperrima</i> subsp. <i>maderensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Gentry) B.Ullrich</span></li>
<li><i>Agave asperrima</i> subsp. <i>potosiensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Gentry) B.Ullrich</span></li>
<li><i>Agave asperrima</i> subsp. <i>zarcensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Gentry) B.Ullrich</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i>Agave franzosinii</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Sprenger) Sewell</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_lurida" title="Agave lurida">Agave lurida</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Aiton</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_oroensis" title="Agave oroensis">Agave oroensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_scaposa" title="Agave scaposa">Agave scaposa</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave weberi</i> <span class="Person h-card">J.F.Cels ex J.Poiss.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Salmianae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Verloove &amp; Thiede</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave mapisaga</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave salmiana</i> <span class="Person h-card">Otto ex Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave salmiana</i> subsp. <i>crassispina</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave salmiana</i> subsp. <i>salmiana</i></li>
<li><i>Agave salmiana</i> var. <i>mitriformis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Jacobi) A.Berger</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_tecta" title="Agave tecta">Agave tecta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Sisalanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave desmetiana</i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i>Agave kewensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_sisalana" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave sisalana">Agave sisalana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Perrine</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Crenatae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) B.Ullrich</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_bovicornuta" title="Agave bovicornuta">Agave bovicornuta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave calodonta</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave cupreata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel. &amp; A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave hookeri</i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_inaequidens" title="Agave inaequidens">Agave inaequidens</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">K.Koch</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave inaequidens</i> subsp. <i>barrancensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave inaequidens</i> subsp. <i>inaequidens</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_jaiboli" title="Agave jaiboli">Agave jaiboli</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave maximiliana</i> <span class="Person h-card">Baker</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave maximiliana</i> var. <i>katherineae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave maximiliana</i> var. <i>maximiliana</i></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Campaniflorae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_aurea" title="Agave aurea">Agave aurea</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Brandegee</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave aurea</i> subsp. <i>aurea</i></li>
<li><i>Agave aurea</i> subsp. <i>promontorii</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li><i>Agave aurea</i> var. <i>capensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Gentry) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Umbelliflorae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_sebastiana" title="Agave sebastiana">Agave sebastiana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Greene</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_shawii" title="Agave shawii">Agave shawii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave shawii</i> subsp. <i>goldmaniana</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave shawii</i> subsp. <i>shawii</i></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Rigidae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Baker) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_aktites" title="Agave aktites">Agave aktites</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Haw.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> var. <i>angustifolia</i></li>
<li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> var. <i>letonae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(F.W.Taylor ex Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> var. <i>marginata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> var. <i>nivea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> var. <i>sargentii</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave angustifolia</i> var. <i>variegata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_cantala" title="Agave cantala">Agave cantala</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Roxb. ex Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave cantala</i> var. <i>acuispina</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave cantala</i> var. <i>cantala</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i>Agave collina</i> <span class="Person h-card">Greenm.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_datylio" title="Agave datylio">Agave datylio</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Simon ex F.A.C.Weber</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_decipiens" title="Agave decipiens">Agave decipiens</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Baker</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_fourcroydes" title="Agave fourcroydes">Agave fourcroydes</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Lem.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_karwinskii" title="Agave karwinskii">Agave karwinskii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Zucc.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave macracantha</i> <span class="Person h-card">Zucc.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave pax</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gir.-Cañas</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_rhodacantha" title="Agave rhodacantha">Agave rhodacantha</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave schneideriana</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave stringens</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_tequilana" title="Agave tequilana">Agave tequilana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">F.A.C.Weber</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Ditepalae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_applanata" title="Agave applanata">Agave applanata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">K.Koch</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_chrysantha" title="Agave chrysantha">Agave chrysantha</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Peebles</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_colorata" title="Agave colorata">Agave colorata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_delamateri" title="Agave delamateri">Agave delamateri</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">W.C.Hodgs. &amp; Slauson</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_durangensis" title="Agave durangensis">Agave durangensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_flexispina" title="Agave flexispina">Agave flexispina</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_fortiflora" title="Agave fortiflora">Agave fortiflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave lyobaa</i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; S.Franco</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_murpheyi" title="Agave murpheyi">Agave murpheyi</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">F.Gibson</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_palmeri" title="Agave palmeri">Agave palmeri</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_phillipsiana" title="Agave phillipsiana">Agave phillipsiana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">W.C.Hodgs.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave sanpedroensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">W.C.Hodgs. &amp; Salywon</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_shrevei" title="Agave shrevei">Agave shrevei</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave shrevei</i> subsp. <i>magna</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave shrevei</i> subsp. <i>matapensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave shrevei</i> subsp. <i>shrevei</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_temacapulinensis" title="Agave temacapulinensis">Agave temacapulinensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez &amp; Cházaro</span></li>
<li><i>Agave verdensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">W.C.Hodgs. &amp; Salywon</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_wocomahi" title="Agave wocomahi">Agave wocomahi</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave yavapaiensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">W.C.Hodgs. &amp; Salywon</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Deserticolae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_cerulata" title="Agave cerulata">Agave cerulata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave cerulata</i> subsp. <i>cerulata</i></li>
<li><i>Agave cerulata</i> subsp. <i>dentiens</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave cerulata</i> subsp. <i>subcerulata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave cerulata</i> var. <i>nelsonii</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_deserti" title="Agave deserti">Agave deserti</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave deserti</i> subsp. <i>deserti</i></li>
<li><i>Agave deserti</i> subsp. <i>simplex</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_margaritae" title="Agave margaritae">Agave margaritae</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Brandegee</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_mckelveyana" title="Agave mckelveyana">Agave mckelveyana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave pringlei</i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm. ex Baker</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_sobria" title="Agave sobria">Agave sobria</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Brandegee</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave sobria</i> subsp. <i>frailensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave sobria</i> subsp. <i>roseana</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave sobria</i> subsp. <i>sobria</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_subsimplex" title="Agave subsimplex">Agave subsimplex</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Conicae</i> <span class="Person h-card">R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_avellanidens" title="Agave avellanidens">Agave avellanidens</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_gigantensis" title="Agave gigantensis">Agave gigantensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_moranii" title="Agave moranii">Agave moranii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_turneri" title="Agave turneri">Agave turneri</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">R.H.Webb &amp; Salazar-Ceseña</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Intermediae</i> <span class="Person h-card">R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave azurea</i> <span class="Person h-card">R.H.Webb &amp; G.D.Starr</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_vizcainoensis" title="Agave vizcainoensis">Agave vizcainoensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Parryanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_guadalajarana" title="Agave guadalajarana">Agave guadalajarana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_havardiana" title="Agave havardiana">Agave havardiana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_ovatifolia" title="Agave ovatifolia">Agave ovatifolia</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">G.D.Starr &amp; Villarreal</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_parryi" title="Agave parryi">Agave parryi</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Engelm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave parryi</i> subsp. <i>neomexicana</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Wooton &amp; Standl.) B.Ullrich</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parryi</i> subsp. <i>parryi</i></li>
<li><i>Agave parryi</i> var. <i>couesii</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Engelm. ex Trel.) Kearney &amp; Peebles</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parryi</i> var. <i>huachucensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Baker) Little ex L.D.Benson</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parryi</i> var. <i>parryi</i></li>
<li><i>Agave parryi</i> var. <i>truncata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Hibernicae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_gentryi" title="Agave gentryi">Agave gentryi</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">B.Ullrich</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_montana" title="Agave montana">Agave montana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Villarreal</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_parrasana" title="Agave parrasana">Agave parrasana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Marmoratae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave abisaii</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez &amp; Nieves</span></li>
<li><i>Agave andreae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Sahagún &amp; A.Vázquez</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_gypsophila" title="Agave gypsophila">Agave gypsophila</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave kristenii</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez &amp; Cházaro</span></li>
<li><i>Agave marmorata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Roezl</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_nayaritensis" title="Agave nayaritensis">Agave nayaritensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i>Agave pablocarrilloi</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez, Muñiz-Castro &amp; Padilla-Lepe</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_valenciana" title="Agave valenciana">Agave valenciana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Cházaro &amp; A.Vázquez</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_zebra" title="Agave zebra">Agave zebra</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Guatemalenses</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) B.Ullrich</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave atrovirens</i> <span class="Person h-card">Karw. ex Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave atrovirens</i> var. <i>atrovirens</i></li>
<li><i>Agave atrovirens</i> var. <i>mirabilis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Gentry</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_congesta" title="Agave congesta">Agave congesta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_hiemiflora" title="Agave hiemiflora">Agave hiemiflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Gentry</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_hurteri" title="Agave hurteri">Agave hurteri</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_isthmensis" title="Agave isthmensis">Agave isthmensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend. &amp; F.Palma</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_lagunae" title="Agave lagunae">Agave lagunae</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_pachycentra" title="Agave pachycentra">Agave pachycentra</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parvidentata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_potatorum" title="Agave potatorum">Agave potatorum</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Zucc.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_seemanniana" title="Agave seemanniana">Agave seemanniana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_thomasiae" title="Agave thomasiae">Agave thomasiae</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave wercklei</i> <span class="Person h-card">F.A.C.Weber ex Wercklé</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Antillanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_acicularis" title="Agave acicularis">Agave acicularis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_anomala" title="Agave anomala">Agave anomala</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave antillarum</i> <span class="Person h-card">Descourt.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave antillarum</i> var. <i>antillarum</i></li>
<li><i>Agave antillarum</i> var. <i>grammontensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_brevipetala" title="Agave brevipetala">Agave brevipetala</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave cajalbanensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Álvarez</span></li>
<li><i>Agave caymanensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Proctor</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_grisea" title="Agave grisea">Agave grisea</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_harrisii" title="Agave harrisii">Agave harrisii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave intermixta</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_longipes" title="Agave longipes">Agave longipes</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_missionum" title="Agave missionum">Agave missionum</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave offoyana</i> <span class="Person h-card">De Smet ex Jacobi</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_shaferi" title="Agave shaferi">Agave shaferi</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave sobolifera</i> <span class="Person h-card">Houtt.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_underwoodii" title="Agave underwoodii">Agave underwoodii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Antillares</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_albescens" title="Agave albescens">Agave albescens</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_brittoniana" title="Agave brittoniana">Agave brittoniana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave brittoniana</i> subsp. <i>brachypus</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) A.Álvarez</span></li>
<li><i>Agave brittoniana</i> subsp. <i>brittoniana</i></li>
<li><i>Agave brittoniana</i> subsp. <i>sancti-spirituensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Álvarez</span></li></ul></li>
<li><i>Agave jarucoensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Álvarez</span></li>
<li><i>Agave minor</i> <span class="Person h-card">Proctor</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_papyrocarpa" title="Agave papyrocarpa">Agave papyrocarpa</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave papyrocarpa</i> subsp. <i>macrocarpa</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Álvarez</span></li>
<li><i>Agave papyrocarpa</i> subsp. <i>papyrocarpa</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_tubulata" title="Agave tubulata">Agave tubulata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave willdingii</i> <span class="Person h-card">Tod.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Bahamanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_acklinicola" title="Agave acklinicola">Agave acklinicola</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_bahamana" title="Agave bahamana">Agave bahamana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_braceana" title="Agave braceana">Agave braceana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_indagatorum" title="Agave indagatorum">Agave indagatorum</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_millspaughii" title="Agave millspaughii">Agave millspaughii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Caribaeae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave eggersiana</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_karatto" title="Agave karatto">Agave karatto</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Mill.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Inaguenses</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Trel.) Hochstätter</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_inaguensis" title="Agave inaguensis">Agave inaguensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_nashii" title="Agave nashii">Agave nashii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Viviparae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Baker) Verloove &amp; Thiede</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave arubensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hummelinck</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_boldinghiana" title="Agave boldinghiana">Agave boldinghiana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_cocui" title="Agave cocui">Agave cocui</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_evadens" title="Agave evadens">Agave evadens</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_petiolata" title="Agave petiolata">Agave petiolata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave rutteniae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Hummelinck</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_vicina" title="Agave vicina">Agave vicina</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_vivipara" title="Agave vivipara">Agave vivipara</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">L.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Columbianae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Berger) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave cundinamarcensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave wallisii</i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
<ul><li>Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Salisb.) Baker</span>
<ul><li>Sektion <i>Herbaceae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salm-Dyck</span>
<ul><li>Serie <i>Brunneae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_brunnea" title="Agave brunnea">Agave brunnea</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">S.Watson</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_hauniensis" title="Agave hauniensis">Agave hauniensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">J.B.Petersen</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_longiflora" title="Agave longiflora">Agave longiflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Rose) G.D.Rowley</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_maculosa" title="Agave maculosa">Agave maculosa</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Hook.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_potosina" title="Agave potosina">Agave potosina</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">B.L.Rob. &amp; Greenm.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_sileri" title="Agave sileri">Agave sileri</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Verhoek-Williams) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_singuliflora" title="Agave singuliflora">Agave singuliflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(S.Watson) A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave umbrophila</i> <span class="Person h-card">(García-Mend.) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-Revista_82_3_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Revista_82_3-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_variegata" title="Agave variegata">Agave variegata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Serie <i>Scabraea</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_chamelensis" title="Agave chamelensis">Agave chamelensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.J.Lott &amp; Verh.-Will.) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_gracillima" title="Agave gracillima">Agave gracillima</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_jaliscana" title="Agave jaliscana">Agave jaliscana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Rose) A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave justosierrana</i> <span class="Person h-card">(García-Mend.) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-Revista_82_3_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Revista_82_3-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_longibracteata" title="Agave longibracteata">Agave longibracteata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Verh.-Will.) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_nanchititlensis" title="Agave nanchititlensis">Agave nanchititlensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Matuda) Thiede &amp; Govaerts</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_pubescens" title="Agave pubescens">Agave pubescens</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Regel &amp; Ortgies</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_revoluta" title="Agave revoluta">Agave revoluta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Klotzsch</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_scabra" title="Agave scabra">Agave scabra</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Ortega</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_stictata" title="Agave stictata">Agave stictata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Serie <i>Guttatae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave bulbulifera</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Castillejos &amp; E.Solano) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_debilis" title="Agave debilis">Agave debilis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_fusca" title="Agave fusca">Agave fusca</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Ravenna) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave galvaniae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(A.Castañeda, S.Franco &amp; García-Mend.) Etter &amp; Kristen</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_guerrerensis" title="Agave guerrerensis">Agave guerrerensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Matuda) G.D.Rowley</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_guttata" title="Agave guttata">Agave guttata</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Jacobi &amp; C.D.Bouché</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_involuta" title="Agave involuta">Agave involuta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(McVaugh) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave littoralis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(García-Mend., A.Castañeda &amp; S.Franco) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave occidentalis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Art.Castro &amp; Aarón Rodr.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave parva</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Aarón Rodr.) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_planifolia" title="Agave planifolia">Agave planifolia</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">S.Watson</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_pratensis" title="Agave pratensis">Agave pratensis</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Berger</span></li>
<li><i>Agave undulata</i> <span class="Person h-card">Klotzsch</span></li>
<li><i>Agave verhoekiae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(García-Mendoza) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-Revista_82_3_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Revista_82_3-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li>
<li>Serie <i>Virginicae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Hochstätter) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_virginica" title="Agave virginica">Agave virginica</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">L.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave virginica</i> subsp. <i>lata</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Shinners) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave virginica</i> subsp. <i>virginica</i></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Serie <i>Yucatanae</i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave paniculata</i> <span class="Person h-card">(L.Hern., R.A.Orellana &amp; Carnevali) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-jtbs_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jtbs-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Agave petskinil</i> <span class="Person h-card">(R.A.Orellana, L.Hern. &amp; Carnevali) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-jtbs_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jtbs-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Sektion <i>Polianthes</i> <span class="Person h-card">(L.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li>Serie <i>Polianthes</i> <span class="Person h-card">(L.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave alboaustralis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.Solano &amp; Ríos-Gómez) Thiede</span></li>
<li><i>Agave amica</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Medik.) Thiede &amp; Govaerts</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_confertiflora" title="Agave confertiflora">Agave confertiflora</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_dolichantha" title="Agave dolichantha">Agave dolichantha</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_neonelsonii" title="Agave neonelsonii">Agave neonelsonii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_palustris" title="Agave palustris">Agave palustris</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Rose) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_platyphylla" title="Agave platyphylla">Agave platyphylla</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Rose) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_rosei" title="Agave rosei">Agave rosei</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave venustuliflora</i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.Solano, García-Mend. &amp; Ríos-Gómez) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li></ul></li>
<li>Serie <i>Bravoa</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Lex.) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_bicolor" title="Agave bicolor">Agave bicolor</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.Solano &amp; García-Mend.) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_bulliana" title="Agave bulliana">Agave bulliana</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Baker) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave coetocapnia</i> <span class="Person h-card">(M.Roem.) Govaerts &amp; Thiede</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave coetocapnia</i> subsp. <i>clivicola</i> <span class="Person h-card">(McVaugh) Govaerts &amp; Thiede</span></li>
<li><i>Agave coetocapnia</i> subsp. <i>coetocapnia</i></li>
<li><i>Agave coetocapnia</i> subsp. <i>pueblensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.Solano &amp; García-Mend.) Govaerts &amp; Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-ABM_78_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABM_78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li>
<li><i>Agave graminifolia</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Rose) Govaerts &amp; Thiede</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_howardii" title="Agave howardii">Agave howardii</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">(Verh.-Will.) Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave multicolor</i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.Solano &amp; Dávila) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Agave neocernua</i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede</span></li>
<li><i>Agave oaxacana</i> <span class="Person h-card">(García-Mend. &amp; E.Solano) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-ABM_78_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABM_78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_producta" title="Agave producta">Agave producta</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">Thiede &amp; Eggli</span></li>
<li><i>Agave quilae</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Art.Castro &amp; Aarón Rodr.) Thiede &amp; Govaerts</span></li>
<li><i>Agave zapopanensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">(E.Solano &amp; Ríos-Gómez) Thiede</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>
<p>Von ungesicherter Zuordnung sind:
</p>
<ul><li><i>Agave doctorensis</i> <span class="Person h-card">L.Hern. &amp; Magallán</span></li>
<li><i>Agave gracilipes</i> <span class="Person h-card">Trel.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_montium-sancticaroli" title="Agave montium-sancticaroli">Agave montium-sancticaroli</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend.</span></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_nuusaviorum" title="Agave nuusaviorum">Agave nuusaviorum</a></i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend.</span>
<ul><li><i>Agave nuusaviorum</i> subsp. <i>deltoidea</i> <span class="Person h-card">García-Mend.</span></li>
<li><i>Agave nuusaviorum</i> subsp. <i>nuusaviorum</i></li></ul></li>
<li><i>Agave santanamichelii</i> <span class="Person h-card">(Art.Castro, Aarón Rodr. &amp; P.Carrillo) Thiede &amp; Gideon F.Sm.</span></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hybriden">Hybriden</h3></div>
<p>Folgende <a href="Hybride" title="Hybride">Hybriden</a> wurden beschrieben:
</p>
<ul><li><i><a href="Agave_%C3%97ajoensis" title="Agave ×ajoensis">Agave ×ajoensis</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br>Natürliche Hybride von <a href="Agave_deserti" title="Agave deserti"><i>Agave deserti</i> var. <i>simplex</i></a> und <a href="Agave_schottii" title="Agave schottii"><i>Agave schottii</i> var. <i>schottii</i></a></li>
<li><i>Agave ×arizonica</i><br>Mögliche Hybride von <a href="Agave_toumeyana" title="Agave toumeyana"><i>Agave toumeyana</i> subsp. <i>bella</i></a> und <i><a href="Agave_chrysantha" title="Agave chrysantha">Agave chrysantha</a></i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×blissii</i><br>Gartenhybride von <i><a href="Agave_duplicata" title="Agave duplicata">Agave duplicata</a></i> und <i><a href="Agave_polianthes" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave polianthes">Agave polianthes</a></i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×bundrantii</i><br>Gartenhybride von <i><a href="Agave_polianthes" class="mw-redirect" title="Agave polianthes">Agave polianthes</a></i> und <i><a href="Agave_howardii" title="Agave howardii">Agave howardii</a></i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×cavanillesii</i><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br>Hybride von <i><a href="Agave_fourcroydes" title="Agave fourcroydes">Agave fourcroydes</a></i> und <i><a href="Agave_decipiens" title="Agave decipiens">Agave decipiens</a></i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×glomeruliflora</i><br>Hybridogener Ursprung mit morphologischen Übergängen zwischen <i><a href="Agave_lechuguilla" title="Agave lechuguilla">Agave lechuguilla</a></i> und <i>Agave neomexicana</i> und/oder <i><a href="Agave_havardiana" title="Agave havardiana">Agave havardiana</a></i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×gracilipes</i><br>Naturhybride von <i><a href="Agave_lechuguilla" title="Agave lechuguilla">Agave lechuguilla</a></i> und <i>Agave neomexicana</i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×güemensis</i><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br>Hybride von <i>Agave polyacantha</i> und <i>Agave walleriana</i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×leopoldii</i><br>Gartenhybride von <i><a href="Agave_filifera" title="Agave filifera">Agave filifera</a></i> und <a href="Agave_filifera_subsp._schidigera" title="Agave filifera subsp. schidigera"><i>Agave filifera</i> subsp. <i>schidigera</i></a></li>
<li><i>Agave</i> ×<i>neokewensis</i><sup id="cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br> Hybride von <i><a href="Agave_duplicata" title="Agave duplicata">Agave duplicata</a></i> und <i><a href="Agave_bulliana" title="Agave bulliana">Agave bulliana</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Agave_%C3%97peacockii" title="Agave ×peacockii">Agave ×peacockii</a></i><br>Natürliche Hybride von <i>Agave marmorata</i> und <i><a href="Agave_kerchovei" title="Agave kerchovei">Agave kerchovei</a></i></li>
<li><i>Agave ×rossellonensis</i><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br>Hybride von <i>Agave walleriana</i> var. <i>xalapensis</i> und <i>Agave polyacantha</i></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Synonyme">Synonyme</h3></div>
<p><a href="Synonym_(Taxonomie)" title="Synonym (Taxonomie)">Synonyme</a> zur Gattung <i>Agave</i> sind <i>Polianthes</i> <span class="Person h-card">L.</span> (1753), <i>Pothos</i> <span class="Person h-card">Adans.</span> (1763), <i>Tuberosa</i> <span class="Person h-card">Heist. ex Fabr.</span> (1769, nom. illeg. <a href="Internationaler_Code_der_Botanischen_Nomenklatur" class="mw-redirect" title="Internationaler Code der Botanischen Nomenklatur">ICBN</a>-Artikel 52.1), <i>Bonapartea</i> <span class="Person h-card">Willd.</span> (1814), <i>Littaea</i> <span class="Person h-card">Tagl.</span> (1816), <i>Bravoa</i> <span class="Person h-card"><a href="Pablo_de_la_Llave" title="Pablo de la Llave">La Llave</a> &amp; Lex.</span> (1824), <i>Coetocapnia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Link &amp; Otto</span> (1828), <i>Robynsia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Drap.</span> (1841, nomen rejiciendum <a href="Internationaler_Code_der_Botanischen_Nomenklatur" class="mw-redirect" title="Internationaler Code der Botanischen Nomenklatur">ICBN</a>-Artikel 56.1), <i>Ghiesbreghtia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Roezl</span> (1861, nom. inval. <a href="Internationaler_Code_der_Botanischen_Nomenklatur" class="mw-redirect" title="Internationaler Code der Botanischen Nomenklatur">ICBN</a>-Artikel 52.1), <i>Manfreda</i> <span class="Person h-card">Salisb.</span> (1866), <i>Allibertia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Marion</span> (1882), <i>Prochnyanthes</i> <span class="Person h-card">S.Watson</span> (1887), <i>Leichtlinia</i> <span class="Person h-card">H.Ross</span> (1893), <i>Delpinoa</i> <span class="Person h-card">H.Ross</span> (1897), <i>Pseudobravoa</i> <span class="Person h-card">Rose</span> (1899) und <i>Runyonia</i> <span class="Person h-card">Rose</span> (1922).<sup id="cite_ref-thiede3_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thiede3-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Botanische_Geschichte">Botanische Geschichte</h2></div>
<p>In seiner Beschreibung der Pflanzen des <a href="Linn%C3%A9-Garten" title="Linné-Garten">Botanischen Gartens Uppsala</a> trennte <a href="Carl_von_Linn%C3%A9" title="Carl von Linné">Carl von Linné</a> 1748 die zuvor als <i>Amerikanische Aloe</i> bezeichneten Pflanzen von der Gattung der <a href="Aloen" title="Aloen">Aloen</a> ab und führte den botanischen Namen <i>Agave</i> ein, ohne jedoch einzelne Arten zu beschreiben.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In seiner wissenschaftlichen Erstbeschreibung der Gattung in <i><a href="Species_Plantarum" title="Species Plantarum">Species Plantarum</a></i> führte Linné vier Arten 1753 auf: <i><a href="Agave_americana" title="Agave americana">Agave americana</a></i>, <i><a href="Agave_vivipara" title="Agave vivipara">Agave vivipara</a></i>, <i><a href="Agave_virginica" title="Agave virginica">Agave virginica</a></i> und <i>Agave foetida</i> (heute <i><a href="Furcraea_foetida" title="Furcraea foetida">Furcraea foetida</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In der 8. Auflage von <a href="Philip_Miller" title="Philip Miller">Philip Millers</a> <i>The Gardener's Dictionary</i> kamen 1768 vier Arten dazu: <i>Agave tuberosa</i> (heute: <i><a href="Furcraea_tuberosa" title="Furcraea tuberosa">Furcraea tuberosa</a></i>), <i><a href="Agave_karatto" title="Agave karatto">Agave karatto</a></i>, <i>Agave vera-cruz</i> (heute <i><a href="Agave_lurida" title="Agave lurida">Agave lurida</a></i>) und <i>Agave rigida</i> (möglicherweise <i><a href="Agave_fourcroydes" title="Agave fourcroydes">Agave fourcroydes</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In der Folgezeit wurden weitere Arten durch <a href="William_Aiton" title="William Aiton">William Aiton</a>, <a href="Adrian_Hardy_Haworth" title="Adrian Hardy Haworth">Adrian Hardy Haworth</a>, <a href="Attilio_Zuccagni" title="Attilio Zuccagni">Attilio Zuccagni</a>, <a href="John_Bellenden_Ker-Gawler" class="mw-redirect" title="John Bellenden Ker-Gawler">John Bellenden Ker-Gawler</a>, <a href="Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Cavanilles" title="Antonio José Cavanilles">Antonio José Cavanilles</a> und <a href="Johann_Friedrich_Klotzsch_(Botaniker)" title="Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (Botaniker)">Johann Friedrich Klotzsch</a> beschrieben.
</p><p><a href="Christian_Julius_Wilhelm_Schiede" title="Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede">Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede</a> und Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinsky (1780–1855) bereisten Mexiko, sammelten dort Pflanzen und schickten diese nach Europa, wo sie beispielsweise in Italien und England kultiviert wurden. <a href="Karl_Sigismund_Kunth" title="Karl Sigismund Kunth">Karl Sigismund Kunth</a> führte 1850 insgesamt 49 Arten an. <a href="Joseph_zu_Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck" title="Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck">Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck</a> nahm 1834<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> und 1859<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> anhand der in seiner Sammlung in <a href="D%C3%BCsseldorf" title="Düsseldorf">Düsseldorf</a> kultivierten Pflanzen ebenfalls eine Überarbeitung der bis dahin bekannten Arten vor und erkannte 45 Arten an. Von 1864 bis 1867 beschrieb der preußische General <a href="Georg_Albano_von_Jacobi" title="Georg Albano von Jacobi">Georg Albano von Jacobi</a> (1805–1874), der mit Salm-Dyck in Kontakt stand, in der <i>Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung</i> anhand von in europäischen Gärten kultivierten Pflanzen (meist Jungpflanzen) 78 neue Arten. Weitere Beschreibungen durch ihn erfolgten von 1868 bis 1870 in den <i>Abhandlungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur.</i> Damit wuchs die Anzahl der beschriebenen Agavenarten auf etwa 160 an. Weder Salm-Dyck noch Jacobi benutzten für ihre Beschreibungen Blütenmerkmale, obwohl die Blüten der Agaven bereits 1833 durch <a href="Joseph_Gerhard_Zuccarini" title="Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini">Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini</a> beschrieben worden waren.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Durch <a href="George_Engelmann" title="George Engelmann">George Engelmann</a> und <a href="John_Gilbert_Baker" title="John Gilbert Baker">John Gilbert Baker</a> erfolgten weitere Revidierungen der Gattung. In seiner Zusammenfassung der Gattung <i>Agave</i> erkannte Baker 1888 insgesamt 138 Arten an.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>1915 veröffentlichte <a href="Alwin_Berger" title="Alwin Berger">Alwin Berger</a> seine Monographie <i>Die Agaven</i> und unternahm den ersten Versuch, die gesamte Gattung nach taxonomischen Gesichtspunkten zu gliedern. Seine Beschreibungen nahm er vorwiegend anhand von Pflanzen vor, die im an der <a href="Italienische_Riviera" title="Italienische Riviera">Italienischen Riviera</a> gelegenen Garten <i>La Mortola</i> wuchsen. <a href="William_Trelease" title="William Trelease">William Trelease</a>, der für den <a href="Missouri_Botanical_Garden" title="Missouri Botanical Garden">Missouri Botanical Garden</a> tätig war, war der erste Botaniker, der die Agaven intensiv an ihren natürlichen Standorten, insbesondere in Mexiko, Guatemala und der Karibik studierte. Aufgrund dieser Untersuchungen erfolgten zahlreiche weitere Erstbeschreibungen. Bis 1924 waren insgesamt 310 Arten bekannt.
</p><p><a href="Howard_Scott_Gentry" title="Howard Scott Gentry">Howard Scott Gentry</a> unternahm ausgedehnte Feldstudien in Nordamerika und untersuchte das in <a href="Herbarium" title="Herbarium">Herbarien</a> hinterlegte Material, deren Ergebnisse er 1982 publizierte. Darin unterteilte er die Agaven anhand von Blütenmerkmalen in die zwei Untergattungen <i>Agave</i> (rispige Blüte) mit 8 Sektionen und 54 Arten sowie <i>Littaea</i> (ährige Blüten) mit 12 Sektionen und 82 Arten.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Phylogenese" title="Phylogenese">Phylogenetische</a> Arbeiten Mitte der 1990er Jahre führten 1999 zur Einziehung der Arten <i>Manfreda</i>, <i>Polianthes</i> und <i>Prochnyanthes</i> als Untergattung <i>Manfreda</i> in die Gattung <i>Agave.</i><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Basierend auf der Phylogenie von Ofelia Jiménez-Barron et al. (2020)<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> schlugen J. Antonio Vázquez-García et al. im Jahr 2024 vor die Gattungen <i>Manfreda</i>, <i>Polianthes</i> sowie Prochnyanthes wieder anzuerkennen und stellten dazu drei neue Gattungen auf: <i>Paleoagave</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez, Rosales &amp; García-Mor.</span> (1 Art), <i>Paraagave</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez, Rosales &amp; García-Mor.</span> (1 Art) und <i>Echinoagave</i> <span class="Person h-card">A.Vázquez, Rosales &amp; García-Mor.</span> (12 Arten).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Verwendung">Verwendung</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faserlieferant">Faserlieferant</h3></div>

<p>Agaven zählen zu den wichtigsten Lieferanten von <a href="Faser#Pflanzliche_Fasern_(Pflanzenfasern)" title="Faser">Pflanzenfasern</a>. Gewerbsmäßig werden unter anderem die <a href="Sisal-Agave" title="Sisal-Agave">Sisal-Agave</a> (<i>Agave sisalana</i>), <i><a href="Agave_fourcroydes" title="Agave fourcroydes">Agave fourcroydes</a></i> (als <a href="Henequen" class="mw-redirect" title="Henequen">Henequen</a> bezeichnet), <i><a href="Agave_cantala" title="Agave cantala">Agave cantala</a></i> und <a href="Agave_vivipara" title="Agave vivipara"><i>Agave vivipara</i> var. <i>letonae</i></a> angebaut. Wild geerntet werden <i><a href="Agave_lechuguilla" title="Agave lechuguilla">Agave lechuguilla</a></i> (Ixtle-Fasern), <i><a href="Agave_funkiana" title="Agave funkiana">Agave funkiana</a></i> (Jamauve-Fasern) sowie gelegentlich <i><a href="Agave_victoriae-reginae" title="Agave victoriae-reginae">Agave victoriae-reginae</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nahrungs-_und_Genussmittel">Nahrungs- und Genussmittel</h3></div>
<p>Bereits die Ureinwohner Mexikos rösteten oder buken Blütenknospen und Agavenblätter, die sich durch ihren hohen Gehalt an <a href="Zucker" title="Zucker">Zucker</a> auszeichnen.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Agavensirup" title="Agavensirup">Agavendicksaft</a> wird aus der Cabeza oder Piña, dem nach dem Abschlagen der Blätter zurückbleibenden Stamm, gewonnen.
</p><p><a href="Pulque" title="Pulque">Pulque</a>, das Nationalgetränk Mexikos, wird durch <a href="G%C3%A4rung" title="Gärung">Vergärung</a> des als <i>Aguamiel</i> bezeichneten Agavensaftes hergestellt. Große ökonomische Bedeutung für Mexiko hat der <a href="Tequila" title="Tequila">Tequila</a>, der ausschließlich aus der <a href="Blaue_Agave" class="mw-redirect" title="Blaue Agave">Blauen Agave</a> (<i>Agave tequilana</i>) gewonnen wird und für den strengere Qualitätsregeln gelten als für <a href="Mezcal" title="Mezcal">Mezcal</a>, welcher aus verschiedenen Agavensorten hergestellt wird.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nachweise">Nachweise</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literatur">Literatur</h3></div>
<ul><li><a href="Alwin_Berger" title="Alwin Berger">Alwin Berger</a>: <i>Die Agaven. Beiträge zu einer Monographie.</i> Jena 1915 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biolib.de/berger/index.html">(online)</a>.</li>
<li>Howard Scott Gentry: <i>Agaves of Continental North America.</i> University of Arizona Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8165-0775-9.</li>
<li>Thomas Heller: <i>Agaven.</i> Münster 2003, ISBN 3-931587-89-4.</li>
<li>Joachim Thiede: <cite style="font-style:italic">Agave</cite>. In: <a href="Urs_Eggli" title="Urs Eggli">Urs Eggli</a> (Hrsg.): <cite style="font-style:italic">Sukkulenten-Lexikon. Einkeimblättrige Pflanzen (Monocotyledonen)</cite>. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>3–75</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Agaven&amp;rft.atitle=Agave&amp;rft.au=Joachim+Thiede&amp;rft.btitle=Sukkulenten-Lexikon.+Einkeimbl%C3%A4ttrige+Pflanzen+%28Monocotyledonen%29&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.isbn=3800136627&amp;rft.pages=3-75&amp;rft.place=Stuttgart&amp;rft.pub=Eugen+Ulmer" style="display:none">&nbsp;</span></li>
<li>Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: <i>Einbeziehung von Manfreda Salisbury, Polianthes Linné und Prochnyanthes S. Watson in Agave Linné (Agavaceae).</i> In: <i><a href="Kakteen_und_andere_Sukkulenten" title="Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten">Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten</a>.</i> Band 50, Nummer 5, 1999, S. 109–113 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.agavaceae.com/botanik/pflanzen/botanzeige_scan_en.asp?gnr=110&amp;cat=&amp;scan=110-3">(online)</a>.</li>
<li>Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: <i>Einbeziehung von Manfreda Salisbury und Polianthes Linné in Agave Linné (Agavaceae): weitere Umbenennungen.</i> In: <i>Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten.</i> Band 52, Nummer 6, 2001, S. 166–167 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.agavaceae.com/botanik/pflanzen/botanzeige_scan_en.asp?gnr=110&amp;cat=&amp;scan=110-1">(online)</a>.</li>
<li>Joachim Thiede: <i>Nomenclatural Transfers from Manfreda Salisb., Polianthes L. and Bravoa Lex. to Agave L. (Agavaceae/Asparagaceae).</i> In: <i>Haseltonia.</i> Nummer 17, 2012, S. 94–95 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2985/1070-0048-17.1.12" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2985/1070-0048-17.1.12">doi:10.2985/1070-0048-17.1.12</a>).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h3></div>
<ol class="references">
<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite style="font-style:italic">Agāve</cite>. [1]. In: <a href="Heinrich_August_Pierer" title="Heinrich August Pierer">Heinrich August Pierer</a>, <a href="Julius_L%C3%B6be" title="Julius Löbe">Julius Löbe</a> (Hrsg.): <cite style="font-style:italic"><a href="Universal-Lexikon_der_Gegenwart_und_Vergangenheit" title="Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit">Universal-Lexikon der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit</a></cite>. 4. Auflage. <span style="white-space:nowrap">Band<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>1</span>: <i>A–Aufzwingen</i>. Altenburg 1857, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>179</span> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009314210">Digitalisat.</a> <a href="Zeno.org" title="Zeno.org">zeno.org</a>).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Agaven&amp;rft.atitle=Ag%C4%81ve&amp;rft.btitle=Universal-Lexikon+der+Gegenwart+und+Vergangenheit&amp;rft.date=1857&amp;rft.edition=4.&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.pages=179&amp;rft.place=Altenburg&amp;rft.volume=Band+1%3A+A-Aufzwingen" style="display:none">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Heller: <i>Agaven.</i> Münster 2003, S. 17.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-thiede3-4-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-1">b</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-2">c</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-3">d</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-4">e</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3-4_3-5">f</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede: <cite style="font-style:italic">Agave</cite>. In: <a href="Urs_Eggli" title="Urs Eggli">Urs Eggli</a> (Hrsg.): <cite style="font-style:italic">Sukkulenten-Lexikon. Einkeimblättrige Pflanzen (Monocotyledonen)</cite>. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>3–4</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Agaven&amp;rft.atitle=Agave&amp;rft.au=Joachim+Thiede&amp;rft.btitle=Sukkulenten-Lexikon.+Einkeimbl%C3%A4ttrige+Pflanzen+%28Monocotyledonen%29&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.isbn=3800136627&amp;rft.pages=3-4&amp;rft.place=Stuttgart&amp;rft.pub=Eugen+Ulmer" style="display:none">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Species Plantarum.</i> 1. Auflage. Lars Salvius: Stockholm 1753, S. 323–324; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.botanicus.org/page/358342">(online)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-thiede4-8-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede4-8_5-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-thiede4-8_5-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede: <cite style="font-style:italic">Agave</cite>. In: <a href="Urs_Eggli" title="Urs Eggli">Urs Eggli</a> (Hrsg.): <cite style="font-style:italic">Sukkulenten-Lexikon. Einkeimblättrige Pflanzen (Monocotyledonen)</cite>. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>4–8</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Agaven&amp;rft.atitle=Agave&amp;rft.au=Joachim+Thiede&amp;rft.btitle=Sukkulenten-Lexikon.+Einkeimbl%C3%A4ttrige+Pflanzen+%28Monocotyledonen%29&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.isbn=3800136627&amp;rft.pages=4-8&amp;rft.place=Stuttgart&amp;rft.pub=Eugen+Ulmer" style="display:none">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede, Gideon F. Smith, Urs Eggli: <i>Infrageneric classification of Agave L. (Asparagaceae: Agavoideae / Agavaceae): a nomenclatural assessment and updated classification at the rank of section, with new combinations.</i> In: <i><a href="Bradleya" title="Bradleya">Bradleya</a>.</i> Band 37, 2019, 240–264 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n37.2019.a22" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.25223/brad.n37.2019.a22">doi:10.25223/brad.n37.2019.a22</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede: <cite style="font-style:italic">Yucca</cite>. In: <a href="Urs_Eggli" title="Urs Eggli">Urs Eggli</a>, Reto Nyffeler (Hrsg.): <cite style="font-style:italic">Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons</cite>. 2. Auflage. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-662-56484-4, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>21–311</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Agaven&amp;rft.atitle=Yucca&amp;rft.au=Joachim+Thiede&amp;rft.btitle=Illustrated+Handbook+of+Succulent+Plants%3A+Monocotyledons&amp;rft.date=2020&amp;rft.edition=2.&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.isbn=9783662564844&amp;rft.pages=21-311&amp;rft.place=Berlin%2FHeidelberg&amp;rft.pub=Springer" style="display:none">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-thiede3-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-thiede3_28-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede: <cite style="font-style:italic">Agave</cite>. In: <a href="Urs_Eggli" title="Urs Eggli">Urs Eggli</a> (Hrsg.): <cite style="font-style:italic">Sukkulenten-Lexikon. Einkeimblättrige Pflanzen (Monocotyledonen)</cite>. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em">&nbsp;</span>3</span>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Agaven&amp;rft.atitle=Agave&amp;rft.au=Joachim+Thiede&amp;rft.btitle=Sukkulenten-Lexikon.+Einkeimbl%C3%A4ttrige+Pflanzen+%28Monocotyledonen%29&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.isbn=3800136627&amp;rft.pages=3&amp;rft.place=Stuttgart&amp;rft.pub=Eugen+Ulmer" style="display:none">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Hortus Upsaliensis.</i> Lars Salvius: Stockholm 1748, S. 87; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.botanicus.org/page/405205">online</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Species Plantarum.</i> 1. Auflage. Lars Salvius: Stockholm 1753, S. 323–324; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.botanicus.org/page/358342">online</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Philip Miller: <i>The Gardeners Dictionary.</i> 8. Auflage. 1768, ohne Seitenzahlen; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.botanicus.org/page/394513">online</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-32">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Hortus Dyckensis: Oder Verzeichniss der in dem botanischen Garten zu Dyck wachsenden Pflanzen.</i> Verlag=Arnz &amp; Comp., 1834, S. 301–309; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=KZwCAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA301">online</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Bemerkungen über die Gattungen Agave und Fourcroya nebst Beschreibung einiger neuer Arten.</i> In: <i>Bonplandia.</i> Band 7, S. 85–96, 1859; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.de/books?id=9iMXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA85">online</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum Exhibentia Ephemerides sive Observationes Historias et Experimenta.</i> Band 16, Nr. 2, 1833.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-35">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">John Gilbert Baker: <i>Handbook of the Amaryllideae, including the Alstroemerieae and Agaveae.</i> George Bell &amp; Sons, London 1888 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/52710">(online)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Alwin Berger: <i>Die Agaven. Beiträge zu einer Monographie.</i> Jena 1915, S. 13.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gary Irish: <i>Agaves, yuccas, and related plants. A Gardener's Guide.</i> Timber Press, 2000, ISBN 0-88192-442-3, S. 15–16.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: <i>Einbeziehung von Manfreda Salisbury, Polianthes Linné und Prochnyanthes in Agave (Agavaceae).</i> In: <i><a href="Kakteen_und_andere_Sukkulenten" title="Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten">Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten</a>.</i> Band 50, Nr. 5, S. 109–113, 1999.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-39">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ofelia Jiménez-Barron, Ricardo García-Sandoval, Susana Magallón, Abisaí García-Mendoza, Jorge Nieto-Sotelo, Erika Aguirre-Planter, Luis E. Eguiarte: <i>Phylogeny, Diversification Rate, and Divergence Time of Agave sensu lato (Asparagaceae), a Group of Recent Origin in the Process of Diversification.</i> In: <i> Frontiers in Plant Science.</i> Band 11, 2020, e536135 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.536135" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.536135">doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.536135</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">J. Antonio Vázquez-García, C. Santiago Rosales-Martínez, Jesús Padilla-Lepe, Gerardo Hernandez-Vera, Leccinum Jesús García-Morales: <i>New genera and new combinations in Agavaceae (Asparagales).</i> In: <i>Phytoneuron.</i> 2024-02, 2024, S. 1–14 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.phytoneuron.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/02PhytoN-Agavaceae.pdf">PDF</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Heller: <i>Agaven.</i> Münster 2003, S. 27–29.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-42">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Heller: <i>Agaven.</i> Münster 2003, S. 29–34.</span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neuere_Erstbeschreibungen">Neuere Erstbeschreibungen</h3></div>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Greg D. Starr, Julia Etter, Martin Kristen: <i>Agave cremnophila (Agavaceae), a new species from southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico.</i> In: <i>Cactus and Succulent Journal.</i> Band 90, Nr. 1, S. 39–45, 2018 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2985/015.090.0105" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2985/015.090.0105">doi:10.2985/015.090.0105</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Greg D. Starr, Tristan J. Davis, José A. Villareal Quintanilla: <i>A Cryptic New Species of Agave (Asparagaceae/Agavoideae) and an Amplified Description of Agave tenuifolia.</i> In: <i>Cactus and Succulent Journal.</i> Band 93, Nr. 4, S. 273–285, 2021 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2985/015.093.0403" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2985/015.093.0403">doi:10.2985/015.093.0403</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Miguel Cházaro–Basáñez, H. David Jimeno–Sevilla, Héctor Oliva–Rivera: <i>Agave gomezpompae Cházaro &amp; Jimeno–Sevilla. A New Species of Agave (Agavaceae) from Central Veracruz, Mexico.</i> In: <i>Cactus-Aventures International.</i> Nummer 88, 2010, S. 2–11 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.agavaceae.com/botanik/pflanzen/scans/gnr110/scan3/1842.pdf">PDF</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carlos Arzaba-Villalba, Miguel Cházaro-Basáñez and César Viveros-Colorado. 2018. <i>Agave maria-patriciae</i> (Polycephalae Group: Asparagaceae), A New Species from Central Coastal Veracruz, Mexico. Phytotaxa. 360(3); 263–268. <a href="https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.360.3.6" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.360.3.6">doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.360.3.6</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">George R. Procter: <i>Flora of the Cayman Islands.</i> Kew Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84246-403-8, S. 183.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">George Richardson Proctor: <i>Agave minor</i> In: Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, Mark T. Strong (Hrsg.): <i>Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.</i> In: <i>Contributions from the United States National Herbarium.</i> Band 52, 2005, S. 118 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://botany.si.edu/pubs/CUSNH/vol52web.pdf">(PDF; 5,6&nbsp;MB)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Revista_82_3-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Revista_82_3_14-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Revista_82_3_14-1">b</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Revista_82_3_14-2">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Abisaí Josué García-Mendoza: <i>Tres especies nuevas de Manfreda (Agavaceae) del sur de México.</i> In: <i>Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad.</i> Band 82, Nummer 3, 2011, S. 747–757 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/rmbiodiv/v82n3/v82n3a2.pdf">PDF</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Thiede2012-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-1">b</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-2">c</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-3">d</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-4">e</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-5">f</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-6">g</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-7">h</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-8">i</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-9">j</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-10">k</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Thiede2012_15-11">l</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Joachim Thiede: <i>Nomenclatural Transfers from Manfreda Salisb., Polianthes L. and Bravoa Lex. to Agave L. (Agavaceae/Asparagaceae).</i> In: <i>Haseltonia.</i> Number 17, 2012, S. 94–95 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2985/1070-0048-17.1.12" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2985/1070-0048-17.1.12">doi:10.2985/1070-0048-17.1.12</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carlos Castillejos–Cruz, Eloy Solano: <i>Manfreda bulbulifera (Agavaceae), especie nueva de México.</i> In: <i>Acta botánica mexicana.</i> Band 82, 2008, S. 67–73 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/abm/n82/n82a6.pdf">(PDF; 330&nbsp;kB)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">A Castañeda Rojas, I. Sonia Franco Martínez, Abisaí García Mendoza: <i>Manfreda galvaniae (Agavaceae), especie nueva de México, con nota sobre la ubicación taxonómica de M. malinaltenangensis Matuda y su lectotipificación.</i> In: <i>Acta botánica mexicana.</i> Band 72, 2005, S. 65–76 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57407206">online</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Julia Etter, Martin Kristen: <i>A new combination in the genus Agave.</i> In: <i>Haseltonia.</i> Nummer 12, 2006 S. 70 (<a href="Digital_Object_Identifier" title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</a>:<span class="uri-handle" style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2985/1070-0048%282006%2912%5B70a%3AANCITG%5D2.0.CO%3B2">10.2985/1070-0048(2006)12[70a:ANCITG]2.0.CO;2</a></span>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Aarón Rodríguez: <i>Manfreda parva (Agavaceae), especie nueva del estado de Guerrero, México.</i> In: <i>Acta botánica mexicana.</i> Band 88, 2009, S. 1–8 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/abm/n88/n88a1.pdf">(PDF; 393&nbsp;kB)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-jtbs-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-jtbs_20-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-jtbs_20-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Luis Hernández-Sandoval, Roger Orellana, Germán Carnevali: <i>Two new species of Manfreda Salisb. (Agavaceae) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.</i> In: <i>The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.</i> Band 135, Nummer 2, 2008, S. 168–177 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.3159/08-RA-023.1" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.3159/08-RA-023.1">doi:10.3159/08-RA-023.1</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-ABM_78-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ABM_78_21-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ABM_78_21-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Abisaí J. García-Mendoza, Eloy Solano: <i>Polianthes oaxanana y P. geminiflora var. pueblensis (Agavaceae), taxa nuevos de México.</i> In: <i>Acta Botánica Mexicana.</i> Band 78, 2007, S. 111–112 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57407808">online</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Eloy Solano Camacho, Patricia D. Dávila Aranda: <i>Polianthes multicolor (Agavaceae), especie nueva de Guanajuato, Mexico.</i> In: <i>Novon.</i> Band 13, 2003, S. 119–122 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/643289">online</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Eloy Solano, Ramiro Ríos-Gómez: <i>Polianthes zapopanensis (Agavaceae), una especie nueva de Jalisco, México.</i> In: <i>Brittonia.</i> Band 63, Nummer 1, 2011, S. 70–74 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-010-9132-6" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1007/s12228-010-9132-6">doi:10.1007/s12228-010-9132-6</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Wendy C. Hodgson: <i>Taxonomic Novelties in American Agave (Agavaceae).</i> In: <i>Novon.</i> Band 11, Nummer 4, 2001, S. 410–416 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3393152">(JSTOR)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Daniel Guillot Ortiz, Piet Van Der Meer: <i>Agave × cavanillesii nuevo híbrido descubierto en la Comunidad Valenciana.</i> In: <i>Flora Montiberica.</i> Nummer 28, 2004, S. 73–76 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/dcfichero_articulo?codigo=1393097">(PDF)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Daniel Guillot Ortiz, Piet Van Der Meer: <i>"Agave x güemensis" Guillot &amp; Meer ("Agave polyacantha" Haw. x "Agave walleriana" Baker) un nuevo híbrido dentro del grupo "Polzcephalae" Gentry.</i> In: <i>Studia botanica.</i> Nummer 24, 2005, S. 87–89 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://campus.usal.es/~revistas_trabajo/index.php/0211-9714/article/viewFile/6196/6214">(PDF)</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Daniel Guillot Ortiz, Piet Van Der Meer: <i>Dos nuevos taxones del género Agave en el Jardín Botánico de Valencia.</i> In: <i>Flora Montiberica.</i> Nummer 27, 2004, S. 54–56 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/dcfichero_articulo?codigo=1393809">(PDF)</a>.</span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weiterführende_Literatur"><span id="Weiterf.C3.BChrende_Literatur"></span>Weiterführende Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>August J. Breitung: <i>The Agaves.</i> The Cactus and Succulent Journal Yearbook, Abbey Garden Press, 1968.</li>
<li>Howard Scott Gentry: <i>The Agave Family in Sonora.</i> U. S. Departement of Agriculture, 1972.</li>
<li>Mary Irish, Gary Irish: <i>Agaves, Yuccas and related plants of Continental North America.</i> Timber Press, 2000, S. 93–184, Tafel 1–52.</li>
<li>E. García-Moya, A. Romero-Manzanares, P. S. Nobel: <i>Highlights for Agave Productivity.</i> In: <i>GCB Bioenergy.</i> Band 3, Nummer 1, 2011, S. 4–14 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1757-1707.2010.01078.x" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2010.01078.x">doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2010.01078.x</a>).</li>
<li>James L. Reveal, Wendy C. Hodgson: <i>Agave</i> In: <i>Flora of North America.</i> Oxford University Press 2002, S. 442–461 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&amp;taxon_id=100796">(online)</a>.</li>
<li>Ivana Richter: <i>Die Gattung Agave.</i> A.I.A.S., 2011.</li>
<li>Luis Hernández-Sandoval, Roger Orellana, Germán Carnevali: <i>Two new species of Manfreda Salisb. (Agavaceae) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.</i> In: <i>The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.</i> Band 135, Nummer 2, 2008, S. 168–177 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.3159/08-RA-023.1" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.3159/08-RA-023.1">doi:10.3159/08-RA-023.1</a>).</li>
<li>J. A. Narvaez-Zapata, L. F. Sanchez-Teyer: <i>Agaves as a Raw Material: Recent Technologies and Applications.</i> In: <i>Recent Patents on Biotechnology.</i> Band 3, Nummer 3, 2009, S. 185–191 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2174/187220809789389144" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2174/187220809789389144">doi:10.2174/187220809789389144</a>).</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Phylogenie</dt></dl>
<ul><li>Sara V. Good-Avila, <a href="Valeria_Souza" title="Valeria Souza">Valeria Souza</a>, Brandon S. Gaut, Luis E. Eguiarte: <i>Timing and Rate of Speciation in Agave (Agavaceae).</i> In: <i><a href="Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>.</i> Band 103, Nummer 24, 2006, S. 9124–9129 (<a href="JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/30051908">30051908</a>).</li>
<li>D. J. Bogler, B. B. Simpson: <i>A chloroplast DNA study of the Agavaceae.</i> In: <i>Systematic Botany.</i> Band 20, 1995, S. 191–205 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2419449" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2307/2419449">doi:10.2307/2419449</a>).</li>
<li>D. J. Bogler, B. B. Simpson: <i>Phylogeny of Agavaceae based on ITS rDNA sequence variation.</i> In: <i>American Journal of Botany.</i> Band 83, 1996, S. 1225–1235 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/2446206" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.2307/2446206">doi:10.2307/2446206</a>).</li>
<li>D. J. Bogler, J. C. Pires, J. Francisco-Ortega: <i>Phylogeny of Agavaceae based on ndhF, rbcL, and ITS sequences: Implications of molecular data for classification.</i> In: J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, M. G. Simpson (Hrsg.): <i>Monocots: Comparative Biology and Evolution. Excluding Poales.</i> In: <i>Aliso.</i> Band 22, 2006, S. 313–328.</li>
<li>L. Eguiarte, V. Souza, A. Silva-Montellano: <i>Evolución de la familia Agavaceae: filogenia, ecología evolutiva de la reproducción y genética de poblaciones.</i> In: <i>Boletin de la Sociedad Botanica de México.</i> Band 66, 2000, S. 131–150.</li>
<li>Ofelia Jiménez-Barron, Ricardo García-Sandoval, Susana Magallón, Abisaí García-Mendoza, Jorge Nieto-Sotelo, Erika Aguirre-Planter, Luis E. Eguiarte: <i>Phylogeny, Diversification Rate, and Divergence Time of Agave sensu lato (Asparagaceae), a Group of Recent Origin in the Process of Diversification.</i> In: <i>Frontiers in Plant Science.</i> Band 11, e536135, 2020 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.536135" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.536135">doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.536135</a>).</li></ul>
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<li>Jan Kolendo: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.agavepages.co.uk/main.html">The Agave Pages</a> (englisch)</li>
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