Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65816 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.01 MALVACEAE Sida cordifolia | Entry Book Number | 31.1924 | |
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Uses | LeavesUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Thurston Lt Col | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Received from Lt Col Thurston on 6 Oct 1924 - Recommended as an intestinal douche. Packet of leaves from J Monteiro da Silva & Co, 38 Rua de S Pedro, Rio de Janeiro. Opuscular source: Letter no 1 (or 401?) 1924, xvi p47. H1458-24. Repor, t on Malvas from Lt Col EH Thurston. The material received for ident is very fragmentary but there can be little doubt that it is S cordifolia L. This sp is common in waste places and roadsides in Brazil and is employed medicinally for its emollient prop, erties (Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, vol xii, pars iii p 592) No record of S cordifolia as possessing deleterious properties has been found. | ||||