Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38313

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Leucaena macrophylla Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Mexico, Oaxaca
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 Oxford University Forest Herbariumx0Dx0A
Collector Hughes CE, Lewis GP, Contreras JL Collector No 1338
Collection Notes Collection Date 26/03/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Close to the main Pacific coast road running west from Puerto Escondido on narrow coastal plains about 2km inland from the Pacific coast. Small branchy tree to 6m ht. Bark smooth mid grey brown with rusty brown lenticels arranged in a mor, secode pattern in horizontal lines. Flowers densely packed on globose flower heads on a raceme of flower head fascicles, calyx and corolla pale green, stamen filaments, anthers and style creamy white, anthers hairy. Ripe and unripe pods, greenish brown, turning orange brown when ripe. Locally frequent in degraded dry forest and secondary dry scrub with Pterocarpus, Enterolobium, Prosopis, Albizia, Acacia and Gliricidia.

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