Taxon: Metroxylon sagu Rottb.

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Common names:

• sago palm   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• sagoutier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Sagopalme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• palmeira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• palma sagú   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• sagopalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• taggig sagopalm   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: starch   (fide Pl Res SEAs A selection:181. 1989)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs A selection:181. 1989)
  
• Materials: alcohol   (source of carbohydrates for industrial applications fide Pl Res SEAs A selection:181. 1989)
  
• Materials: fiber   (source of carbohydrates for industrial applications fide Pl Res SEAs A selection:181. 1989)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia [introd.?]; Papua New Guinea; Philippines [introd.?]
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Samoa

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Elevitch, C. R., ed. The traditional tree initiative: species profiles for Pacific Island agroforestry (on-line resource).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Flach, M. & F. Rumawas, eds. 1996. Plants yielding non-seed carbohydrates. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 9:121–126.
• Flach, M. 1997. Sago palm. Metroxylon sagu Rottb. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 13:1–76.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Kjaer, A. et al. 2004. Investigation of genetic and morphological variation in the sago palm (Metroxylon sagu; Arecaceae) in Papua New Guinea. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 94:109–117.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1963. An annotated checklist of cultivated palms. Principes 7:152, 178.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rauwerdink, J. B. 1986. An essay on Metroxylon, the sago palm. Principes 30:171.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 8:327.
• Uhl, N. W. & J. Dransfield. 1987. Genera palmarum: a classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore, Jr. 245.
• Westphal, E. & P. C. M. Jansen, eds. 1989. A selection. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). A:180.
• Whitmore, T. C. 1973. Palms of Malaya. 77–78.
• World Agroforestry Centre, ICRAF-SEA. AgroForestry Tree database (on-line resource).

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Synonyms:

• (=) Metroxylon rumphii (Willd.) Mart.
  
• (=) Sagus inermis Roxb.
  
• (=) Sagus spinosus Roxb.
  

Check other web resources for Metroxylon sagu Rottb.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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