Taxon: Agave lechuguilla Torr.

• the 7 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:

• Tampico fiber   (Source: Agave NAmer ) – English
  
• Ixtlefaser   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• ixtle de lechuguilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• lechuguilla   (Source: Agave NAmer ) – Spanish
  
• mescal lechuguilla   (Source: Agave NAmer 23.) – Spanish
  
• tula ixtle   (Source: Pl Book ) – Spanish (Mexico)
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: fiber   (principal source of ixtle or Tampico fiber fide Gentry 1982)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Kingsbury; Agave ANAmer)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Agave lechuguilla from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango [e.], Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas [n.]
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Federal District, Hidalgo

References:

• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gentry, H. S. 1972. The agave family in Sonora. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 399:9,22. [mentions; "lecheguilla"].
• Gentry, H. S. 1982. Agaves of continental North America. 154–157.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. ["lecheguilla"].
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. ["lecheguilla"].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agave lechuguilla.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agave lechuguilla.

Check other web resources for Agave lechuguilla Torr.:

• 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
• 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.

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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