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Agavoideae

Agavoideae
Family: Asparagaceae
Agavoideae image
Leslie Landrum
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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.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Agave aktites
Media resource of Agave aktites
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Agave albomarginata
Media resource of Agave albomarginata
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Agave americana
Media resource of Agave americana
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Agave angustifolia
Media resource of Agave angustifolia
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Agave applanata
Media resource of Agave applanata
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Agave asperrima
Media resource of Agave asperrima
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Agave attenuata
Media resource of Agave attenuata
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Agave aurea
Media resource of Agave aurea
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Agave avellanidens
Media resource of Agave avellanidens
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Agave bovicornuta
Media resource of Agave bovicornuta
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Agave capensis
Media resource of Agave capensis
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Agave cerulata
Media resource of Agave cerulata
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Agave chiapensis
Media resource of Agave chiapensis
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Agave chrysantha
Media resource of Agave chrysantha
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Agave chrysoglossa
Media resource of Agave chrysoglossa
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Agave colorata
Media resource of Agave colorata
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Agave decipiens
Media resource of Agave decipiens
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Agave delamateri
Media resource of Agave delamateri
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Agave deserti
Media resource of Agave deserti
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Agave desmettiana
Media resource of Agave desmettiana
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Agave felgeri
Media resource of Agave felgeri
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Agave filifera
Media resource of Agave filifera
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Agave fourcroydes
Media resource of Agave fourcroydes
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Agave franzosini
Media resource of Agave franzosini
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Agave funkiana
Media resource of Agave funkiana
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Agave geminiflora
Media resource of Agave geminiflora
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Agave ghiesbreghtii
Media resource of Agave ghiesbreghtii
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Agave gigantensis
Media resource of Agave gigantensis
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Agave glomeruliflora
Media resource of Agave glomeruliflora
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Agave gracilis
Media resource of Agave gracilis
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Agave havardiana
Media resource of Agave havardiana
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Agave hurteri
Media resource of Agave hurteri
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Agave impressa
Media resource of Agave impressa
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Agave inaequidens
Media resource of Agave inaequidens
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Agave jaiboli
Media resource of Agave jaiboli
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Agave lecheguilla
Media resource of Agave lecheguilla
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Agave lurida
Media resource of Agave lurida
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Agave macroacantha
Media resource of Agave macroacantha
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Agave maculata
Media resource of Agave maculata
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Agave margaritae
Media resource of Agave margaritae
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Agave mckelveyana
Media resource of Agave mckelveyana
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Agave montana
Media resource of Agave montana
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Agave moranii
Media resource of Agave moranii
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Agave murpheyi
Media resource of Agave murpheyi
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Agave nizandensis
Media resource of Agave nizandensis
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Agave obscura
Media resource of Agave obscura
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Agave ocahui
Media resource of Agave ocahui
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Agave ornithobroma
Media resource of Agave ornithobroma
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Agave oroensis
Media resource of Agave oroensis
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Agave ovatifolia
Media resource of Agave ovatifolia
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