Will the real A. scabra please....

Dear Steve, let me see now.  There is an Agave scabra Ortega, but it isn't 
what we have been calling Agave scabra?  So, the agave that has been known 
as A. scabra is in fact A. asperrima Jacobi, whereas the "real" Agave scabra 
is some agave few people know?  Breck



>Dear Breck,
>
>Both names were validly published. The species Ortega named Agave scabra 
>was a completely different one from which Salm-Dyck named Agave scabra. So 
>Agave scabra Salm-Dyck requires a different name of which the earliest 
>available is Agave asperrima Jacobi. There is no reason to conserve Agave 
>scabra Salm-Dyck because the name had been used only relatively recently 
>and the species is again being called Agave asperrima Jacobi in the most 
>recent literature.


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