Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 22648

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Plant Name 93.01 ERICACEAE Arctostaphylos polifolia Entry Book Number 20.1983
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Mexico, Oaxaca, Nr Vanhuitlan
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size A Related Items
Donor BM (Nat. Hist.) Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Iltis Hugh H, Iltis Frank, Koeppen Robert Collector No 1164
Collection Notes Collection Date 20/08/1960
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Map of location included. Very steep and clayey open Quercus atostaphylos woodland with shrubby Penstemons, small Agave, few cacti, and many epiphytic Bromeliads (including Tillandsia usnoides), Orchidaceae (Encyclia concolor), and Schoenoc, aulon sp. Terribly eroded and overgrazed slope below Pan-am. Highway at Puerto Herrera (Km 420), just NW of Vanhuitlan. Flowers narrowly to broadly urceolate, very variable, from white to a very rich pink. Stigma green. Shrub very much branched, to 1.5 me, ters tall. Mature berry black, verrucose.

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