Taxon: Agave sisalana Perrine

• the 8 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
• Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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
  
• sisalagave   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Libya
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• EUROPE
  Southwestern Europe: Spain
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Nauru
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies

• widely cultivated

• probable origin Chiapas, Mexico

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).
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of 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.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Smith, C. E., Jr. 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.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agave sisalana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agave sisalana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agave sisalana.

Check other web resources for Agave sisalana Perrine:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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.

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