      
Taxon: Agave americana L.
Genus: Agave
Family: Asparagaceae subfamily: Agavoideae. Also placed in:
Agavaceae
Nomen number: 1690
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:323. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 26-Feb-2012 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 26-Jan-2012
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- American agave (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- American agave (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – English
- American-aloe (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- century-plant (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- century-plant (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- spreading century-plant (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Agave americana subsp. americana var. expansa]
- wild century-plant (Source: F NAmer
) – English [Agave americana subsp. protamericana]
- garingboom (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001
) – Afrikaans
- agave d'Amérique (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- pite (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- amerikanische Agave (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- hundert-jährige Agave (Source: Zander Ency
) – German
- maguey (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- maguey (Source: Hortus 3
) – Spanish
- pita común (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Agave americana subsp. americana var. americana]
- agave (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
Naturalized:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; South Africa; Swaziland
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Turkey
China: China [s.]
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
New Zealand: New Zealand
- EUROPE
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
- PACIFIC
Northwestern Pacific: Palau
Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Southern South America: Argentina - Cordoba, La Pampa; Chile - Juan Fernandez
Cultivated:
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Allan, H. H. B. et al.
1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
- Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
- Euro+Med Editorial Committee.
Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Gentry, H. S.
1972. The agave family in Sonora.
U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb.
399:80–84.
- Gentry, H. S.
1982. Agaves of continental North America.
270–290. [with two subspecies].
- George, A. S., ed.
1980–. Flora of Australia.
- Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds.
2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
- Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
- Henderson, L.
2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
- Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
- Instituto de Botánica Darwinion.
2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
- Kamalesh, T. et al.
1994. Agave americana - potentials ahead.
MFP News
4:14–16.
- Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Quézel, P. & S. Santa.
1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea.
- Vázquez-García et al.
2004. Flora del norte de Jalisco y etnobotánica Huichola. Serie Fronteras de Biodivesidad.
1:57.
- Valdés, B. et al., eds.
2002. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du nord du Maroc, incluant des clés d'identification.
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Agave americana L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of
the Biota of North
America Program
- Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
- ABRS: Australian Biological
Resources Study Flora of Australia online
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Check other web resources for images:
- PlantSystematics.org
-
 Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?1690 (20 May 2013)
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