Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 58203 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Schinziophyton rautanenii | Entry Book Number | 18.1991.3 | |
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Botswana | TDWG Region | Botswana | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | Botswana, Nata, Nata-Kasane Road | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cook FEM, ECOS RBG Kew | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/02/1991 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Cook FEM, Terry J, Sydes CL | Collector No | 36 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 05/05/1990 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Uses from literature see Booth FEM & Wickens GE 1986, Non-Timber Uses of Selected Arid Zone tree and shrubs in Africa Rome FAO Location - 19Km down left hand forestry track 172 Km from Nata along Nata-Kasane road. Description - Dioecious de, ciduous tree to 13.5m. Bark smooth to flaking, yellowish to papery beneath flakes. Wood very light. Site in deep sand woodland, species present: Pterocarpus angolensis, Erythrophleum, Baikaea plurijuga tree, Bauhinia petersiana, Combretum shrubs and andr, opogonoid grasses and Digitaria. Abundance - can occur scattered within the woodland but also can form groves (eg at 25 Km from the main road) Notes - Elephants very fond of this fruit, seeds frequently found in elephant dung and many trees have been push, ed over. Material - Vouchers Kew & Botswana, specimens taken from regrowth as large trees had already lost their leaves. Seeds fruits and wood sample for Ec Bot Collections, Kew and small seed collection for Wakehurst. Place seed bank for experiments into, drying ability. Photos FC.AU. 180-183 | ||||
| Determinations: | 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Ricinodendron rautanenii Schinz 151.01 EUPHORBIACEAE Schinziophyton rautanenii (Schinz) Radcl.-Sm. | ||||