Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38302

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Piptadenia obliqua Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country El Salvador TDWG Region El Salvador
Parts Held Wood Geography Description El Salvador, Ahuachapan Dept
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Lewis GP Donor No
Donor Date 00/09/1989 Donor Notes Forest Herb Oxford Univx0Dx0A
Collector Hughes CE, Lewis GP, Berendsohn W, Villacorta R Collector No 1232
Collection Notes Collection Date 16/02/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: About 2km along the road towards Hacienda San Benito from the main coastal road running west from Acajutla to the Guatemalan frontier. about 35km west of Acajutla. Medium-sized tree to 12m ht. DBH 60cm. Highly branched, resprouting vigourou, sly after lopping. Leaves shedding, discolourous, dark bottle green above paler below. Flowers in spikes, buds vivid lime green corolla and calyx yellowy lime green, stamen filaments white, whole infloresence fading dirty tangerine yellow. Pods heavily tw, isted, olive green unripe pale brown when ripe; seeds white. Woody base of old petiole scars deciduous; tiny spine like stipules. Frequent, in secondary forest and in fencelines with Bauhinia, Acacia, Cordia and Simarouba.

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