Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 38540 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 34.02 ERYTHROXYLACEAE Erythroxylum cumanense | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Venezuela | TDWG Region | Venezuela | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Venezuela, Caracas | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Field Mus of Nat Hist Chicago, Illinois | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1989 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Plowman Tomothy | Collector No | 7673 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 16/02/1979 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Plants of Venezuela. Distrito Federal: Caracas. Jardin Botanico. Reforested hills above garden. Tree 10m tall with trunk 9cm near base. Bark dark grey-brown, cracked longitudinally and transversely. Branched near base. Branches erect, strai, ght up, sometimes arching over. Secondary branches at 60 to 90 degrees from axis. Branching dense, branchlets grey-brown, thick, forming semi-rigid short shoots. Leaves near tips of short shoots, somewhat shiny, medium green avove, lateral nerves prominul, ous; pale glaucous green beneath with fine dark green reticulate veinlets. Areolae present on some leaves only, showing a yellower green or lighter area with fewer veinlets, leaves membranaceous. This species holding leaves much longer than others in area, . Sterile. | ||||