Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Liliopsida (392)
Order: Liliales (106)
Family: Agavaceae (5)(family description)
Genus: Furcraea (2)
Epithet: bedinghausii K.Koch (1)
bedinghausii => in honor of H. J. Bendinghaus (fl. 1860s), Belgian horticulturist in whose garden the taxon was discovered