An agave that had long been considered a form of A. victoriae-reginae and referred to as A. ferdinand-regis, or ferdinandi-regis in Gentry, was most recently in 2011 given its proper due. A group of Mexican botanists (González- Elizondo, M.S.; González- Elizondo, M.; Lúpez- Enriquez, I.L., Reséndiz-Rojas, L.; Tena-Flores, J.A. and