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Agavoideae
Family: Asparagaceae
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James L. Reveal & Wendy C. Hodgson in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Plants usually perennial, occasionally epiphytic, sometimes monocarpic or polycarpic, monoecious, dioecious, or polygamodioecious, small to gigantic, sometimes arborescent, usually scapose. Stems subterranean or aboveground, sometimes branched. Leaves simple, annual or long-lived, in terminal rosettes or occasionally cauline, sessile or occasionally pseudo-petiolate; blade linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, fibrous, thin and flexible, thick and rigid or succulent, or fibrous, often glaucous, margins entire, serrulate, dentate, denticulate, corneous, or filiferous, apex rigid or flexible, sometimes pungent, often with short or long spine. Inflorescences terminal or axillary spikes, racemose or paniculate, sometimes umbellate, bracteate, often huge; bracts ascending or erect, occasionally reflexed, leaflike proximally, scalelike distally. Flowers 6-merous, bisexual or functionally unisexual; perianth of 2 similar petallike whorls, semisucculent; tepals distinct or connate into tube, apex glandular or glandular-pubescent; stamens included or exserted; filaments often broadened and succulent, glabrous, pubescent, or papillose; anthers versatile, dehiscence longitudinal; ovary superior or inferior, 3-locular or occasionally 1-locular, 3-angled, ovoid, or cylindrical, with axillary or rarely parietal placentation; style included or exserted; stigmas 1 or 3, 3-lobed or capitate; pedicel usually distinct, articulate or not, rarely absent. Fruits occasionally baccate, usually capsular and sometimes winged or lobed, or indehiscent and dry or fleshy. Seeds 1-3(-many) per locule, flattened, 3-angled, hemispheric, ovoid, obovoid, or globose.
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Agave acuispina
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Agave aktites
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Agave albicans
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Agave albomarginata
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Agave americana
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Agave angustiarum
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Agave angustifolia
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Agave angustifolia x vilmoriniana
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Agave angustissima
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Agave antillarum
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Agave apedicellata
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Agave applanata
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Agave asperrima
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Agave atrovirens
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Agave attenuata
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Agave aurea
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Agave avellanidens
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Agave azurea
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Agave bahamana
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Agave bakeri
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Agave bovicornuta
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Agave braceana
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Agave bracteosa
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Agave brandegeei
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Agave breedlovei
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Agave brevipetala
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Agave brevispina
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Agave bulliana
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Agave cacozela
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Agave caeciliana
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Agave cantala
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Agave capensis
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Agave carminis
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Agave celsii
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Agave cerulata
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Agave chiapensis
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Agave chihuahuana
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Agave chisosensis
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Agave chrysantha
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Agave chrysoglossa
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Agave coetocapnia
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Agave colimana
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Agave collina
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Agave colorata
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Agave compacta
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Agave confertiflora
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Agave congesta
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Agave convallis
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Agave costaricana
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Agave cupreata
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