Checklist: Agavaceae

AGAVACEAE

Introduction:

This is a checklist of species, generated from the database, which are known to have been cultivated in Zimbabwe.

To go to the main family page, click on the family name above.

Furcraea foetida
Literature:   
Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.  
Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.J. (2009) A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 132-136  
Lock, J.M. (2008) Agavaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(1)   
Walters, S.M. et al. (eds) (1986) The European Garden Flora. Vol. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae-Monocotyledons (Part I). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge  
 
Names
 
1103.000 YUCCA L.
Yucca gigantea Lem.
Yucca elephantipes Regel ex Trel.
Yucca gloriosa L.
 
1104.000 HESPERALOE Englem.
Hesperaloe ?parvifolia (Torr.) Coult.
 
1108.000 CORDYLINE Comm. ex R.Br.
Cordyline australis (G. Forst.) Hook. f.
Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A. Chev.
Cordyline terminalis (L.) Kunth
Cordyline ti Schott
Dracaena terminalis L.
Cordyline stricta Endl.
 
1217.000 POLIANTHES S. Watson
Polianthes tuberosa L.
 
1219.000 AGAVE L.
Agave americana L.
Agave attenuata Salm-Dyck
Agave sisalana Perrine
Agave victoriae-reginae T. Moore
Agave vivipara L.
var. vivipara
Agave angustifolia Haw.
 
1222.000 FURCRAEA Vent.
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Furcraea gigantea Vent.
 
1223.000 BESCHORNERIA Kunth
Beschorneria sp. (Biegel 5357)
Beschorneria yuccoides K. Koch

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants checklist: Agavaceae.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/utilities/utility-display-cult-checklist.php?family_id=2, retrieved 25 April 2024

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