Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 38531 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 34.02 ERYTHROXYLACEAE Erythroxylum oxycarpum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Venezuela | TDWG Region | Venezuela | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Venezuela, Caracas, Jardin Botanico, Reforested Hills | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Field Museum of Nat Hist Chicago Illinois | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Plowman Timothy | Collector No | 7668 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 05/02/1979 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Tall shrub 4m tall with 3 main trunks 3-5cm diameter near base. Branches spreading divaricating disposed in horizontally plane. Bark dark brown, fissured longitudinally, markedly toward base. Branches dark brown. Branchlets greyish with whi, tish lenticels. Leaves + in one plane, at branch tips, deciduous. Laminae ascending, margins somewhat revolute. Blade shiny above, lateral nerves prominulous, light green turning yellow; less shiny beneath, paler, veinlets deeper green, finely drawn. Leav, es firm membranaceous, exareolate, elineate. Fruits nearly past, deep red, drying and falling, 6mm x 4.5mm, ovate, acute. Calyx remnant yellowish. Alt: 900 to 950 M | ||||