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A

Agave abisaii A.Vázquez & Nieves – Mexico (Jalisco) Agave acicularis Trel. - Cuba Agave acklinicola Trel. - Bahamas Agave × ajoensis W.C.Hodgs. - Pima County in Arizona = A. deserti var. simplex × A. schottii var. schottii Agave aktites Gentry - Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora) Agave albescens Trel. - Cuba Agave alboaustralis (E.Solano & Ríos-Gómez) Thiede - Oaxaca Agave albomarginata Gentry - northeastern Mexico Agave albopilosa I.Cabral - Mexico (Nuevo León) Agave americana L. – American Agave, American Century Plant, Century Plant, Maguey americano - Arizona, Texas, Mexico; naturalized in parts of Africa, Eurasia, Australia, South America various islands Agave amica (Medik.) Thiede & Govaerts – Mexico Agave andreae Sahagún & A.Vázquez – Mexico (Michoacán) Agave angustiarum Trel. - Mexico Agave angustifolia Haw. - Mexico, Central America; naturalized in Spain, South Africa, Indian Subcontinent, various islands Agave anomala Trel. - Bahamas, Cuba Agave antillarum Descourt. - Cuba, Hispaniola Agave apedicellata Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco, San Luis Potosí) Agave applanata Lem. ex Jacobi - Mexico Agave arcedianoensis Cházaro - Mexico (Jalisco) Agave × arizonica Gentry & J.H.Weber = A. chrysantha × A. toumeyana var. bella - Arizona Agave arubensis Hummelinck - Aruba Agave asperrima Jacobi – Maguey spero, Rough Century Plant - Texas, Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas Agave atrovirens Karw. ex Salm-Dyck - Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck – Swan's Neck Agave, Dragon Tree Agave, Foxtail Agave - Mexico; naturalized in southeastern Australia Agave aurea Brandegee - Baja California Sur Agave avellanidens Trel. - Baja California Agave azurea R.H.Webb & G.D.Starr – Mexico (Baja California Sur)

B

Agave bahamana Trel. - Bahamas Agave beaulueriana Jacobi = Agave americana var. franzosini Agave bicolor (E.Solano & García-Mend.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Oaxaca) Agave boldinghiana Trel. - Curaçao, Bonaire *Agave bovicornuta Gentry – Cowhorn Agave - Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora Agave braceana Trel. - Bahamas (Abaco) Agave bracteosa S.Watson ex Engelm. – Squid Agave - Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León) Agave brevipetala Trel. - Hispaniola Agave brevispina Trel. - Hispaniola Agave brittoniana Trel. - Cuba Agave brunnea S.Watson – NE. Mexico Agave bulbulifera (Castillejos & E.Solano) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero) Agave bulliana (Baker) Thiede & Eggli - Mexico

C

Agave cacozela Trel. - Bahamas (Eleuthera) Agave cajalbanensis A.Álvarez - Cuba †Agave calodonta A.Berger - extinct Agave cantala (Haw.) Roxb. ex Salm-Dyck – Cantala, Maguey de la India - Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras Agave capensis Gentry - Baja California Sur = Agave aurea var. capensis Agave caribaeicola Trel. - Lesser Antilles Agave caymanensis Proctor - Cayman Islands Agave cerulata Trel. - Baja California Agave chamelensis (E.J.Lott & Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco) Agave chazaroi A.Vázquez & O.M.Valencia - Jalisco Agave chiapensis Jacobi - Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala Agave chrysantha Peebles – Golden Flowered Agave, Golden Flower Century Plant - Arizona Agave chrysoglossa I.M.Johnst. - Baja California, Sonora Agave cocui Trel. - Colombia, Venezuela (incl Isla Margarita), Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao Agave coetocapnia (M.Roem.) Govaerts & Thiede – Mexico Agave collina Greenm. - Morelos, Guerrero Agave colorata Gentry – Mescal ceniza - Sinaloa, Sonora Agave confertiflora Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Chihuahua) Agave congesta Gentry - Chiapas Agave convallis Trel. - Oaxaca Agave cremnophila - Oaxaca Agave cryptica G.D.Starr & T.J.Davis - Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas) Agave cundinamarcensis A.Berger - Colombia Agave cupreata Trel. & A.Berger - Guerrero, Michoacán

D

Agave dasylirioides Jacobi & C.D.Bouché - Morelos, México State Agave datylio F.A.C.Weber - Baja California Sur Agave debilis A.Berger – C. & SW. Mexico (to Hidalgo) Agave decipiens Baker – False Sisal - Florida; naturalized in parts of Africa Agave delamateri W.C.Hodgs. & Slauson - Arizona Agave demeesteriana Jacobi - Sinaloa, Veracruz Agave deserti Engelm. – Desert Century Plant, Desert Agave, Maguey de Desierto - Baja California, California, Arizona Agave difformis A.Berger - Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí Agave doctorensis L.Hern. & Magallán – Mexico (Querétaro) Agave dolichantha Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco, Michoacán) Agave durangensis Gentry - Durango, Zacatecas Agave dussiana Trel. - Lesser Antilles

E Agave eggersiana Trel. – Eggers' Century Plant, St. Croix Agave - US Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. Thomas) Agave ehrenbergii Jacobi - Cuba = Agave mitis Mart. Agave ellemeetiana Jacobi – Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca) Agave ensifera Jacobi Agave evadens Trel. - Trinidad, Venezuelan Antilles (Isla Margarita)

F Agave felgeri Gentry – Mescalito - Sonora Agave filifera Salm-Dyck – Thread-leaf Agave - Querétaro to México State, Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí Agave flexispina Trel. - Chihuahua, Durango Agave fortiflora Gentry - Sonora Agave fourcroydes Lem. – Henequen, Maguey Henequen, Mexican Sisal - Mexico, Guatemala; naturalized in West Indies, Italy, Canary Islands Agave funkiana K.Koch & C.D.Bouché – Ixtle de Jaumav - Mexico (Tamaulipas to Chiapas) Agave fusca (Ravenna) Thiede & Eggli – Guatemala

G

Agave galvaniae (A.Castañeda – Mexico (México State) Agave garciae-mendozae Galván & L.Hern. - Hidalgo Agave geminiflora (Tagl.) Ker Gawl. - Nayarit Agave gentryi B.Ullrich - Nuevo León, Querétaro Agave ghiesbreghtii Lem. ex Jacobi - Mexico, Guatemala Agave gigantensis Gentry - Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur Agave gilbertii A.Berger - Mexico Agave × glomeruliflora (Engelm.) A.Berger = A. havardiana × A. lechuguilla - Coahuila, western Texas Agave gomezpompae Cházaro & Jimeno-Sevilla - Veracruz Agave gracielae Galvan & Zamudio – Mexico (Querétaro) Agave gracilipes Trel. – Maguey de pastizal, Slimfoot Century Plant - Chihuahua, southern New Mexico, western Texas Agave gracillima A.Berger – Mexico (Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit) Agave graminifolia (Rose) Govaerts & Thiede – NE. Mexico (to Jalisco) Agave grisea Trel. - Cuba Agave guadalajarana Trel. – Maguey chato - Jalisco, Nayarit Agave guerrerensis (Matuda) G.D.Rowley – Mexico (Guerrero) Agave guiengola Gentry - Oaxaca Agave guttata Jacobi & C.D.Bouché – NE. Mexico (to Jalisco) Agave gypsophila Gentry - Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco

H Agave harrisii Trel. - Jamaica Agave hauniensis J.B.Petersen – C. Mexico (to Guerrero) Agave havardiana Trel. – Havard's Century Plant, Chisos Agave, Maguey de Havard - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Texas Agave hiemiflora Gentry - Chiapas, Guatemala Agave hookeri Jacobi - Jalisco, Michoacán Agave horrida Lem. ex Jacobi - Morelos, Veracruz, Oaxaca Agave howardii (Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Jalisco, Colima) Agave hurteri Trel. - Guatemala

I–J Agave impressa Gentry - Sinaloa Agave inaequidens K.Koch - Mexico Agave inaguensis Trel. - Bahamas (Inagua), Turks and Caicos Islands Agave indagatorum Trel. - Bahamas (Watling Island) Agave intermixta Trel. - Hispaniola Agave involuta (McVaugh) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (S. Zacatecas, SE. Nayarit, Jalisco) Agave isthmensis A.García-Mend. & F.Palma - Oaxaca, Chiapas Agave jaiboli Gentry - Sonora, Chihuahua Agave jaliscana (Rose) A.Berger – W. Mexico (to Durango) Agave jarucoensis A.Álvarez - Cuba Agave jimenoi Cházaro & A.Vázquez – Mexico (Veracruz) Agave justosierrana (García-Mend.) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero)

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Agave karatto Mill. - Lesser Antilles, Netherlands Antilles Agave karwinskii Zucc. - Oaxaca, Puebla Agave kavandivi García-Mend. & C.Chávez – Mexico (Oaxaca) Agave kerchovei Lem. - Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla Agave kewensis Jacobi - Chiapas Agave kristenii A.Vázquez & Cházaro – Mexico (Michoacán) Agave lagunae Trel. - Guatemala (Amatitlan) Agave lechuguilla Torr. – Agave lecheguilla, Lecheguilla, Lechuguilla, Maguey lechuguilla - northern Mexico, New Mexico, Texas Agave × leopoldii W.Watson – AGM Agave littoralis (García-Mend. – Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca) Agave longibracteata (Verh.-Will.) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Michoacán) Agave longiflora (Rose) G.D.Rowley – S. Texas to Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nuebo León) Agave longipes Trel. - Jamaica

M Agave macroacantha Zucc. - Puebla, Oaxaca Agave maculata Regel – S. Texas to NE. Mexico Agave madrensis Villarreal – Mexico (Nuevo León) Agave manantlanicola Cuevas & Santana-Michel - Jalisco Agave mapisaga Trel. - Mexico Agave margaritae Brandegee - Baja California Sur Agave maria-patriciae Cházaro & Arzaba – Mexico (Veracruz) Agave marmorata Roezl - Puebla, Oaxaca Agave maximiliana Baker - Mexico Agave mckelveyana Gentry – Mckelvey Agave, McKelvey's Century Plant - Arizona (Yavapai + Mohave Cos) Agave melanacantha Lem. ex Jacobi – C. Cuba Agave michoacana (M.Cedano – Mexico (Michoacán) Agave microceps (Kimnach) A.Vázquez & Cházaro - Sinaloa Agave millspaughii Trel. - Bahamas (Exuma)

Agave minor Proctor - Puerto Rico Agave missionum Trel. – Corita - Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands Agave mitis Mart. - Hidalgo Agave montana Villarreal - Nuevo León Agave montium-sancticaroli García-Mend. - Tamaulipas Agave moranii Gentry - Baja California Agave multicolor (E.Solano & Dávila) Thiede – Mexico (Guanajuato) Agave multifilifera Gentry - Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa Agave murpheyi Gibson – Maguey Bandeado, Murphey Agave, Murphey's Century Plant, Hohokam Agave - Arizona, Sonora

N Agave nanchititlensis (Matuda) ined. – Mexico (México State) Agave nashii Trel. - Bahamas (Inagua) Agave nayaritensis Gentry - Sinaloa, Nayarit Agave neglecta Small – wild century plant = Agave weberi Agave neocernua Thiede - Jalisco Agave neonelsonii Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Durango) Agave neopringlei Thiede & Eggli – Mexico Agave nickelsiae Rol.-Goss. - Coahuila Agave nizandensis Cutak – Dwarf Octopus Agave - Oaxaca Agave nuusaviorum García-Mend. - Oaxaca

O Agave oaxacana (García-Mend. & E.Solano) Thiede – Mexico (Oaxaca) Agave obscura Schiede ex Schltdl. - Mexico Agave ocahui Gentry - Sonora Agave offoyana De Smet ex Jacobi – Cuba (Villa Clara) Agave ornithobroma Gentry – Maguey pajarito - Nayarit, Sinaloa Agave oroensis Gentry - Zacatecas Agave ortgiesiana (Baker) Trel. in L.H.Bailey - Colima, Jalisco Agave oteroi G.D. Starr & T.J. Davis - Oaxaca Agave ovatifolia G.D.Starr & Villarreal - Nuevo León

P–Q Agave pablocarrilloi A.Vázquez – Mexico (Colima) Agave pachycentra Trel. - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras Agave palmeri Engelm. – Maguey de tlalcoyote, Palmer Agave, Palmer Century Plant, Palmer's Century Plant - Sonora, Chihuahua, Arizona, New Mexico Agave palustris (Rose) Thiede & Eggli – Mexico (Durango, Nayarit) Agave panamana Trel. – Panama

Agave paniculata (L.Hern. – Mexico (Yucatán) Agave papyrocarpa Trel. - Cuba (Isla de la Juventud) Agave parrasana A.Berger - Coahuila Agave parryi Engelm. – Mezcal yapavai, Parry Agave, Parry's Agave - Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas Agave parva (Aarón Rodr.) Thiede – Mexico (Guerrero) Agave parvidentata Trel. - El Salvador, Honduras Agave parviflora Torr. in W.H.Emory – Maguey sbari, Smallflower Agave, Smallflower Century Plant, Little Princess Agave - Arizona, Sonora, Chihuahua