Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38284

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Leucaena shannonii Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country El Salvador TDWG Region El Salvador
Parts Held Wood Geography Description El Salvador, La Libertad
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Lewis GP, Herb Kew Donor No
Donor Date 00/09/1989 Donor Notes Forest Herbarium Oxford Univx0Dx0A
Collector Hughes CE, Lewis GP Collector No 1248
Collection Notes Collection Date 20/02/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Close to the main road running south from San Salvador towards the Pacific coast at La Libertad about 10km north of La Libertad in low coastal hills. Medium-sized tree to 12m ht. heavily branched open crown with some resprouting after loppi, ng. Bark dark brown vertically fissured, inner bark reddish, young stems mid grey brown with orange brown lenticels. A few persistent flowers on long terminal racemes of flower heads; stamen filaments dirty cream white. Low seed set and very few unripe an, d ripe pods. Foliage discolourous, leaves shedding. Infrequent, scattered in highly disturbed dry deciduous tropical forest with Cordia alliodora, Cassia grandis, Andira inermis and Gliricidia sepium.

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