Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2598)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2495)
Class: Liliopsida (387)
Order: Liliales (118)
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