Wood and bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 79392 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 101.01 SAPOTACEAE Omphalocarpum procerum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood and bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Cameroon | TDWG Region | Cameroon | ||
| Parts Held | Wood and bark | Geography Description | Mt Cameroon, Western Cameroon | ||
| Uses | Wood and barkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Cheek M | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 01/07/2005 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Cheek M, with Seifert, Munji, Hill, Etuge | Collector No | 5556 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 25/11/1993 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | FLORA OF WESTERN CAMEROONx0Dx0ARBG Kew & Herbier Natinal du Camerounx0Dx0ASupport by Darwin Initiative & Earthwatchx0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollecting notes: x0Dx0ADivision: Mount Cameroon South Westx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AGazette: Njonjix0Dx0Ax0Dx0ALow altitude forest above oil palm plantation. Reahced after c., 40 minutes walk N then E from Njonji. Hunters path to 'Lake Njonji'. Little farming, but many gaps and fallen trees at low altitude, c. 150-300m, crossing and running alongside substantial seasonal stream. Alt. c. 400 m, Hypselodelphyus-Aframomum thicket, dominates.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ATree c. 20-25 m tall, bearing fruits up trunk, outer slash pink-brown, inner very pale. White exudate. Bark light orange-brown, soft. Lenticels raised, same colour. Fruits c. 15 cm diam. Outer surface with yellow, hard round balls c. 9 mm in, diam. Seeds immature, in soft white pulp. Fallen leaves only.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AUses: Meta (Munji) Seeds put on anklets as rattles during dancing. x0Dx0ASeeds on strings round arms of children who can't breath (Benjamin-Bakweri).x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ADuplicates at: K,SCA,WAG,YA.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ANew dets, . To M.Cheeek at RBG Kew and HNC BP 1601 Yaounde.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0A | ||||