Wood and bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 79324 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Machaerium isadelphum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood and bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Honduras | TDWG Region | Honduras | ||
| Parts Held | Wood and bark | Geography Description | Cortes, Honduras | ||
| Uses | Wood and barkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Forest Herbarium Oxford | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Hughes CE, with Harris SA & Atkinson R. | Collector No | 1711 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 07/03/1992 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | SEE HERBARIUM MATERIALx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFOREST HERBARIUM OXFORDx0Dx0AUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDx0Dx0AOXFORD x0Dx0AUKx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFlora of HONDURASx0Dx0Ax0Dx0ADepartment: Cortesx0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollecting notes: Close to the road running ENE from the main Caraterra del norte towards Progreso, about 5 km S of the turn, off to Yoro at Santa Rita.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASmall branchy multiple-stemmed thorny tree to 2m ht. with straggling spreading branches. Bark pale yellow brown, smooth with sharp thorns that persist on the main stem, inner bark sappy, exuding creamy sap which turns orange,, on exposure to the air. Leaves discolourous, dark green above, paler below. Flowers arranged on large thrice-branched terminal inflorescences, lightly scented and attracting a range of large and small bees. Calyx dark maroon, petals pale lilac, the banne, r with a yellow-green basal blotch surrounded by purple streaks, stamens and style mid green, anthers bright orange-yellow.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AInfrequent in degraded dry secondary scrub with Guazuma ulmifolia and Leucaena shannonii.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AAssociated material: Photos Woodx0Dx0AD, uplicates: E, FHO(Forest Herbarium Oxford), K(RBG Kew), MEXU(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), MO (Missouri Botanical Gardens), NY(New York Botanical Gardens)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollected under project R4524 of the UK Overseas Development Admin.x0Dx0A | ||||