This table is based on earlier documents. See below for a more up to date classification.

 

GROUP	NAME	AUTHOR	SYNONYMS	AUTHOR	HABITAT
Antillanae	acicularis	Trelease 1913			Cuba
	anomala	Trelease 1913			Cuba
	antillarum v. antillarum	Descourtilz 1827			Haiti ; Dominican Republic
			americana	Urban
			dominicensis	Ruse
	antillarum v. grammontensis	Trelease 1927			Haiti ; Dominican Republic
	brevipetala	Trelease 1927			Haiti
	brevispina	Trelease 1927			Haiti
	grisea v. grisea	Trelease 1913			Cuba
			grisea v. cienfuegosana	Trelease 1913	Cuba
			grisea v. obesispina	Trelease 1913	Cuba
	harrisii	Trelease 1913			Jamaica
	intermixta	Trelease 1913			Haiti
	legrelliana v. legrelliana	Jacobi 1866			Cuba
			americana	Sagra
			coccinea	Lachaume
			laurentiana	Jacobi 1866	Cuba
			legrelliana v. brevifolia	Trelease 1913	Cuba
			melanacantha	Lemaire ex Jacobi 1865	Cuba
			offroyana	De Smet ex  Jacobi	Cuba
	longipes	Trelease 1913			Jamaica
	missionum	Trelease 1913			Virgin Is.
			eggersiana	Trelease 1913	Virgin Is.
			morrisii	Eggers
			vivipara	Oldendorp
	portoricensis	Trelease 1913			Puerto Rico
	shaferi	Trelease 1913			Cuba
	sobolifera	Salm-Dyck 1834			Jamaica
			americana	Lamarck
			laetevirens	Hort ex Berger
			morrisii	Baker 1887	Jamaica
			morrisii	Kent
			ornata	Jacobi 1865	Jamaica
	sobolifera v. spinidentata	Hummelinck			Jamaica
	underwoodii	Trelease 1913			Cuba
			americana	Millspaugh
			morrisii	Worsley
Antillares	albescens	Trelease 1913			Cuba
	brittoniana ssp. brittoniana	Trelease 1913			Cuba
	brittoniana ssp. brachycarpus	Alvarez 1996
	brittoniana ssp. sancti-spirituensis	Alvarez 1996
	papyrocarpa ssp. papyrocarpa	Trelease 1913			Gtr. Antilles
	papyrocarpa ssp. macrocarpa	Alvarez 1985
	wildingii	Todaro 1878			Cuba
	tubulata	Trelease 1913			Cuba
			ekmanii	Trelease	Cuba
			ekmanii v. microdonta	Trelease
			tubulata v. brevituba	Alvarez
Bahamanae	acklinicola	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
	bahamana	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
			rigida	Northrop
			sobolifera	Hitchcock
	braceana	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
			mexicana	Dolley
	cacozela	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
	indagatorum	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
	millspaughii	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
Caribaeae	barbadensis	Trelease 1913			Barbados
			americana	Dillenius
	caribaeicola	Trelease 1913			Martinique
			caribaea	Baker
			grenadina	Trelease 1913	Grenada
			?kewensis**	Jacobi 1866
			martiana	Koch 1860
			medioxima	Trelease 1913	Dominican Republic
			unguiculata	Trelease 1913	St. Lucia
			ventum-versa	Trelease 1913	St. Vincent
	dussiana	Trelease 1913			Guadaloupe
			montserratensis	Trelease 1913	Montserrat
	karatto	Miller 1768			St. Kitts
			keratto	Haworth
			nevidis	Trelease 1913	Nevis
			obducta	Trelease 1913	Antigua
			salm-dyckii	Baker 1877
			scheuermaniana	Trelease 1913	Anguilla
			trankeera	Trelease 1913	Leeward Is. . .(Bonaire; ..Curacao)
			van grolae	Trelease 1913	St.Eustatius Is.
Columbianae	cundinamarcensis	Berger 1915			Columbia
	wallisii	Jacobi 1870			Columbia
Inaguenses	inaguensis	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
	nashii	Trelease 1913			Bahamas
Vicinae	arubensis	Hummelinck 1936			Leeward Is. .(Aruba)
	boldinghiana	Trelease 1913			Leeward Is. .(Curacao)
	cocui	Trelease 1913			Venezuela
			americana	Humboldt
			cocui v. cucutensis	Hummelinck 1936	Venezuela
			cocui v. laguayrensis	Hummelinck 1936	Venezuela
	evadens	Trelease 1913			Trinidad
			polyacantha	Baker
			polyantha	Dodge
			vivipara	Hart
	petiolata	Trelease 1913			Leeward Is. .(Curacao)
			lurida	Hammelberg
	rutteniae	Hummelinck 1936
	vicina	Trelease 1913			Leeward Is. .(Aruba)
			vivipara	Crantz
			vivipara v.cabaiensis	Hummelinck
			vivipara v.cuebensis	Hummelinck
Viviparae	vivipara***	Linnaeus 1753
			sobolifera v. serrulata	Terracciono	Jamaica
			rubescens	Salm-Dyck 1834	Jamaica

 

(**see notes in 'Agaves of Continental North America' by H.S.Gentry under Agave Kewensis).

 

***The name agave vivipara appears several times in the literature from various authors ( Dalziel and Gibbs;Haworth; Linnaeus; Oldendorp ; Wight ) in various lists and refers to plants described in Barbados, Costa Rica and the Leeward Islands as well as the American mainland. It has been proposed by D.O.Wijnands in 1983 , P.Foster in 1992 and by G. Smith and E.Steyn in 1999 that the name is now specifically applied to plants formerly known as the variable complex of agave angustifolia.

In 2003 Garcia-Mendoza and Chiang published a paper in which they show that in fact angustifolia and vivipara are separate taxa and should not be considered as one and the same plant ( Brittonia 2003; 55:82-87).

Two synonyms of known Caribbean agaves are listed, a fuller list of synonyms of agave vivipara v. vivipara/angustifolia v. angustifolia is given below.  

 

Agave aboriginum (Trelease) / Agave angustifolia (Haworth) / Agave angustifolia var. angustifolia (Haworth) / Agave angustifolia var. rubescens (Salm-Dyck) Gentry) / Agave bergeri (Trelease ex Berger) / Agave breedlovei (Gentry) / Agave costaricana (Gentry) / Agave donnell-smithii (Trelease) / Agave elongata (Jacobi) / Agave endlichiana (Trelease) / Agave erubescens (Ellemeet) / Agave excelsa (Jacobi) / Agave excelsa (Baker) / Agave flaccida (Salm-Dyck) / Agave flaccida (Haworth) / Agave flavovirens (Jacobi) / Agave ixtli (Karwinsky ex Salm-Dyck) / Agave ixtli var. excelsa (Baker) Terracciano) / Agave ixtloides (Hooker) / Agave jacquiniana (Schultes) / Agave kirchneriana (Berger) / Agave lespinassei (Trelease) / Agave lurida (Jacquin) / Agave lurida var. jacquiniana (Schultes) Salm-Dyck) / Agave owenii (I. M. Johnston) / Agave pacifica (Trelease) / Agave panamana (Trelease) / Agave prainiana (Berger) / Agave prolifera (Schott ex Standley) / Agave punctata (Salm-Dyck) / Agave rigida (Spin) / Agave rigida (Berger) / Agave rigida var. elongata (Anonymus) / Agave rubescens (Salm-Dyck) / Agave serrulata (Karwinsky ex Otto) / Agave sicaefolia (Trelease) / Agave sobolifera var. serrulata (Terracciano) / Agave spectabilis (Todaro) / Agave vera-cruz var. jacquiniana (Schultes) Ascherson & Graebner) / Agave vivipara (Linné) / Agave vivipara (Wight) / Aloe vivipara (Crantz) / Agave vivipara var. rubescens (Salm-Dyck) Forster) / Agave vivipara var. woodrowii (Hort. ex Berger) / Agave wightii (Drummond & Prain) / Agave yaquiana (Trelease) / Agave zapupe (Trelease).

 

 

GROUP	AUTHOR	INCLUDES	SPECIES
Antillanae	Trelease 1913		acicularis
			anomala
			antillarum
			cajalbanensis
			grisea
			harrisii
			intermixta
			legrelliana
			longipes
			missionum
			portoricensis
			shaferi
			sobolifera
			underwoodii
Antillares	Trelease 1913		albescens
			brittoniana
			jarucoensis
			offoyana
			papyrocarpa
			tubulata
			wildingii
Bahamanae	Trelease 1913		acklinicola
			bahamana
			braceana
			cacozela
			indagatorum
			millspaughii
Caribaeae	Trelease 1913	Columbianae (Berger 1915)	barbadensis
			caribaeicola
			cundinamarcensis
			dussiana
			karatto
			wallisii
Inaguensis	Trelease 1913		inaguensis
			nashii
Vicinae	Thiede 2001		arubensis
			boldinghiana
			cocui
			evadens
			petiolata
			rutteniae
			vicina
Viviparae	Trelease 1913		vivipara

 

This classification is based on the one found in John Pilbeam's new book 'A Gallery of Agaves (2013).

The original source is the 'Handbook of Succulent Plants' by Joachim Thiede (2001).