Salep tubers - Specimen details

Salep tubers - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 77468

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Plant Name 169.00 ORCHIDACEAE Entry Book Number 21.1983
Artefact Name Salep tubers Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Salep tubers Geography Description Cashmir
Uses Salep tubersUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No
Donor Date 22/08/1983 Donor Notes Aitchison Dr JET
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Note reads: ''Three sorts of salep purchased from an itinerant merchant from Ghazni. The 3 kinds were in seperate bundles but he called them all by one name Salep. The two others are probably young roots or live [?] cloves from the larger bulbs of some [?, ] species of [?]. Dr. Aitchison, see Museum Report 1895 p. 21.'' There are two small bottles of tubers as well as some loose in this specimen. One bottle label reads: ''Salep. Dr. JET Aitchison, Cashmir.'' The other reads: ''Eulophia campestris, Eulophia, vera. Salep from Cashmir. Dr Royle, Dr P. 567.'' Botanical identification inferred from this information, and from vernacular name and geography (vernacular name suggests identification of Orchis sp. or Eulophia sp., both in Orchidaceae). Card catalogue e, ntry filed under 'Native Name Only - Roots.'

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