Taxon: Agave sisalana Perrine

Common names:

• hemp-plant   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• mescal   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• sisal agave   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sisal-hemp   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• garingboom   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• Sisal   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Sisalagave   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sisal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• sisal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Materials: fiber   (one of the main sources of sisal fide Gentry 1982)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
  Africa [s.]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies

• only cultivated, probable origin Chiapas, Mexico

References:

• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. (Zander Ency)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gentry, H. S. 1972. The agave family in Sonora. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 399:97.
• Gentry, H. S. 1982. Agaves of continental North America. (Agave NAmer)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smith, G. F. 1995. The distribution, uses and history of Agave in southern Africa. Aloe 32:84–85. [introduced in South Africa].
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agave sisalana. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Agave sisalana Perrine:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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