Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38277

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Plant Name 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Phyllocarpus septentrionalis Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Guatemala TDWG Region Guatemala
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Guatemala, Zacapa, Rio Blanco
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Lewis G Donor No
Donor Date 00/09/1989 Donor Notes Forest Herbarium Oxford Univx0Dx0A
Collector Hughes CE, Lewis GP Collector No 1224
Collection Notes Collection Date 13/02/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Close to the small settlement of Rio Blanco which lies about 5 km south of the departmental town of Zacapa on the road towards Chiquimula; close to the Rio Zacapa. Large tree to 16m ht. with heavy branching and a spreading crown. Bark dark, blackish grey; granulated texture. Spectacular display of scarlet flowers, tightly packed along branchlets; flowers in clusters, sepals crimson, anthers cream. Flowering when virtually leafless with only a few persistent leaves on lower branches. Locally, common in highly degraded dry forest with Acacia picachensis, Caesalpinia pulcherrima and Thouinidium decandrum, otherwise rare in this part of the Motagua valley.

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