- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34620 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 191.01 ARACEAE Montrichardia arborescens | Entry Book Number | ||
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| Iso Country | Guyana | TDWG Region | Guyana | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | Demerara | |||
| Uses | Use: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Notes on M. aculeata (But specimen not included) and on M. arborescens: Stem 10-25 ft high mostly simple, but sometimes finally branched, quite smooth, 3-6 ins in diam. Leaves clustered at the top mostly erect with the bark turned outwards, , relatively broader with the auricles more overlapped, the base tine turned more outwards, with paler stronger and more prominent horizontal veins than in M. aculeata and the sheath of the petiole more copious with a long free point at its termination., The inflorescence seems much the same in both species as is the fruit. They line the banks of the rivers as far as the tidal influence, in vast impenetrable thickets, growing in the water but are found also scattered in wet places in forests and in the b, eds of creeks of streams nearly all over the Colony Demerara. Not on specimen 5752, M. arborescens Schott, B. Guiana, Jenman, Oct 1889, Received April 15, 1890. (Herb) According to the Kew Index M. arborescens Schott is the same as M. aculeata. but in th, e face of the above notes it is hardly possible to regard them as the same, and Mr Brown is of opinion that they should be kept as distinct species. | ||||