Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 55003 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 69.01 LYTHRACEAE Woodfordia floribunda | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | Kangra, Punjab | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: MATERIALS - Tannins/Dyestuffs User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Tannins/Dyestuffs | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | For Dept India | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1878 | Donor Notes | Stenhouse Colx0Dx0A | ||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: This shrub is comon in Khandesh, also along the Ghauts, and in Concon. The flowers and their calices are red; the latter are permanent and retain their colour after the flower has faded. As met with in commerce the calices generally contain, the nearly mature capsule, which is two-celled and two-valued, and completely enclosed. the seeds are light brown, very minute, oblong and very numerous. The calyx is twelve toothed. In ordinary samples of dhaitee some of the flowers are in small raceme, s, and a good many lanceolate leaves, with a whitish under surface studded with black dots, are mixed with them. The enlarged calices are very astringent and contain much tannin. They are used medicinally by the natives; commercially they are of considera, ble importance being used in dyeing and tanning. | ||||
| Determinations: | 69.01 LYTHRACEAE Woodfordia floribunda Salisb. 69.01 LYTHRACEAE Grislea tomentosa | ||||