Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 72239 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Burkea africana | Entry Book Number | 62.1992.2 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Botswana | TDWG Region | Botswana | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Botswana, Southern District, Gaborone North plot 173,174 | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Cook FEM, Terry J, Sydes CL, Morwe FW, Hargreaves BJ, Rapekene K, Tlale M | Collector No | 170 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 12/04/1990 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Herbarium Kewensis. Tree to 6m high, forked at 2m, trunk circular. d.b.h. 23cm. bark grey-brown with rectangular cracks. Under bark pale yellow-brown. Leaves glossy tending to be pendulous. Flowers absent. Fruits 4.5cm long, pale brown. Sit, e: On farm plot, in very open disturbed shrubland part of area is gardened, but the Burkea trees were not planted. Species present include: Terminalia sericea, Acacia spp., Dichrostachys cinera. A few grasses are present in the ground layer, but generally, sparse. Soil: pale red sand. Other materials: Photo FC.AU1 Bark sample; wood sample - Economic Botany Collection (K.) Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place. Duplicates; GAB Wakehurst Place. | ||||