Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38307

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Plant Name 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Eysenhardtia polystachya Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Mexico, Puebla
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
Collector Hughes CE, Contreras Jimenez JL, Lewis GP Collector No 1793
Collection Notes Collection Date 23/03/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Mexico: Puebla, E slopes of Tehuacan Valley, ca 15 km E of Coxcatlan on road to Zoquitlan and Coyomeapan. Dry hillside above abandoned cultivation with Schinus molle, Prunus sp. and Acacia sp. Locally common spindly shrub to scrappy multiple-stemmed treel, et to 3-5 m with older branches spreading or slightly pendulous and younger branches erect. Main trunks 5 cm diam. with smooth grey, unfissured bark and scattered white lenticels flush to bark surface. Wood creamish yellow. Bark of main branches fissured,, exuding clear sap when cut. Leaflets bluish green, some with a reddish tinge. Calyces green with purplish teeth. Petals white, filaments green, anthers yellow, mature fruit brown, seeds ochre. Wood sample, Flowers in FAA Duplicates: MEXU

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