• Family : AGAVACEAE
  (Agave Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : RAJANIGANDHA FAMILY (रजनीगंधा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPARAGACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Agave vivipara L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Agave vivipara L.
• Common name : Dwarf aloe
• Vernacular name : Kathaalai (Tamil); Baramasi (Oria); Balurakkasi (Telugu); Kittanara, Samatha (Telugu)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Planted
• Comments / notes : Often on plains and sometimes across bare drylands along the ghats. Also planted for fencing.
• Flower, Fruit : January-June
• Collection Locality : Bhubaneswar, Khurda district
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Pune district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Cultivated
  • Tamil Nadu : Cultivated
• Native : Tropical America
• World Distribution : Naturalized in Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; K. Sankara Rao 2009. Flowering Plants of IISc, A Field Guide.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Agave angustifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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