Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2713)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2628)
Class: Liliopsida (397)
Order: Liliales (111)
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