Agave viviparaL.

WFO wfo-0000754941 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Agave vivipara, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. a Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-06 / obs. 114973883
Agave vivipara, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47522435
Agave vivipara, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. c Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 18349825
Agave vivipara, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. d Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3107821
Agave vivipara, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. e Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 684109
Agave vivipara, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. f Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6598173
Agave vivipara, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. g Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129122573
Agave vivipara, photographed by Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil
fig. h Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139584260

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Agave vivipara is native: Aruba, Netherlands Antilles ArubaNetherlands Antilles
Native distribution of Agave vivipara, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Netherlands Antilles NLA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Agave angustifolia var. marginata Gentry
  • Agave angustifolia var. marginata Trel.
  • Agave angustifolia var. variegata Trel.
  • Agave bergeri Trel. ex A.Berger
  • Agave cantala (Haw.) Roxb. ex Salm-Dyck
  • Agave ixtli Karw.
  • Agave lurida Jacq.
  • Agave lurida var. jacquiniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Ker Gawl. ex Hemsl.
  • Agave punctata Hort.Berol. ex Kunth
  • Agave rigida var. longifolia Engelm.
  • Agave theoxmuliana Karw. ex M.Roem.
  • Agave vivipara var. vivipara
  • Aloe vivipara L.
  • Aloe vivipara (L.) Crantz

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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