#family_Agavaceae__Agavaceae__agave_family__agavefamily__sisal_family__sisalfamily  chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae
  supertype:  liliid_monocot_family  family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils
  member of:  order_Liliales
  member:  agave__century_plant__centuryplant__American_aloe  tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
  member:  genus_Agave  type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae
     member:  American_agave__Agave_americana  widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
     member:  sisal__Agave_sisalana  Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
     member:  maguey__cantala__agavecantala  Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
     member:  Agave_atrovirens__maguey  Mexican plant used especially for making pulque the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal
     member:  Agave_tequilana  Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
  member:  genus_Cordyline__Cordyline  Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
     member:  ti__Cordyline_terminalis  shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii
     member:  grass_tree__grasstree__cabbage_tree__cabbagetree__cordylineaustrali  elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand
  member:  subfamily_Dracenaceae__Dracenaceae__Dracaenaceae__subfamily_Dracaenaceae  one of two subfamilies to which some classification systems assign some members of the Agavaceae
  member:  genus_Dracaena  Old World tropical plants with branches ending in tufts of sword-shaped leaves; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae
     member:  dracaena  often cultivated for the decorative foliage
  member:  genus_Nolina__Nolina  perennial plants resembling yucca; found in southern United States and Mexico
     member:  Nolina_microcarpa__bear_grass  stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico
  member:  genus_Polianthes__Polianthes  genus of perennial tuberous herbs having lilylike flowers; Mexico; sometimes placed in family Amaryllidaceae
     member:  tuberose__Polianthes_tuberosa  a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lilylike waxy white flowers
  member:  genus_Sansevieria  Old World tropical herbaceous perennial of the agave family; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae
     member:  sansevieria__bowstring_hemp__bowstringhemp  grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber
  member:  genus_Yucca  tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae
     member:  yucca  any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America

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