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Taxon: Agave tequilana F. A. C. Weber

Genus: Agave
Family: Asparagaceae subfamily: Agavoideae. Also placed in: Agavaceae
Nomen number: 1738
Place of publication: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 8:220. 1902
Name verified on: 05-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 02-May-2005
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:


Economic importance:

  • Human food: starch   (source of distilled beverage, tequila, fide Agave NAmer)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Central Mexico: Mexico - Jalisco, Oaxaca, Puebla

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Gentry, H. S. 1982. Agaves of continental North America. (Agave NAmer) 582–585.
  • McVaugh, R. 1989. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia) 15:143–145.
  • Vázquez-García et al. 2004. Flora del norte de Jalisco y etnobotánica Huichola. Serie Fronteras de Biodivesidad. (F NJalisco) 1:64.
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Check other databases for Agave tequilana F. A. C. Weber:

  • 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.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images 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.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?1738 (09 February 2010)

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