Textilis
/TEK-tih-lis/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: textile
A use epithet indicating the plant provides fiber used in weaving or textile production. Fiber plants have been central to human civilization. Appears as textilis (both genders).
Etymology
From Latin textilis, meaning "woven" or "of weaving," from texere (to weave).
Example
“Agave sisalana (sisal) and Phormium textilis provide the long, strong fibers that have been woven into human culture as fundamentally as into cloth.”