Portions of Plant - Specimen details

Portions of Plant - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 44680

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Plant Name 150.01 BALANOPHORACEAE Balanophora abbreviata Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Portions of Plant Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Portions of Plant Geography Description India, Bombay
Uses Portions of PlantUse: User: TDWG use
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Notes: Label source: Previously named Scindapsus officinalis This is certainly not Scindapsus officinalis but a Balanophora. It is not possible to determine the species, the material being too imperfect for this purpose. There are no notes on the Herbarium spec, imens of Balanophora that might connect the two by their uses; but that there is a connection apparently as evidenced by thr following extracts from Dict of Econ. Prod. India 'Balanophora? this is substituted in the shops of Bombay for Scindapsus officina, lis. It is a parasite, does not seem to possess any active properties' and Dymock; Pharm Indica iii.543, under Scindapsus officinalis (Gaja-pipal) 'In northern and western India an entirely different drug is sold under the same name. It consists of the en, tire plant of a balanophora often remaining attached to a small piece of the dead stick upon which it grew. The largest of these plants are about 5 inches in length and consist of a kind of a cellular cup from which springs a scaly spadix surmounted by a, glandular shaped club of imperfect flowers beneath which the stem is marked by little pits showing the places where the female flowers were attached. This drug is muscilagenous and astringent and is no doubt improperly substituted for the genuine article., April 27th 1904 JHH

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