Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38274

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Plant Name 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Piscidia carthagenensis Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Guatemala TDWG Region Guatemala
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Guatemala, Chiquimula
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Lewis GP Donor No
Donor Date 00/09/1989 Donor Notes Forest Herbarium, Oxford Univx0Dx0A
Collector Hughes CE, Lewis GP Collector No 1226
Collection Notes Collection Date 13/02/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: About 2km N of the dept town of Chiquimula close to the road towards Zacapa on dry valley slopes. Small branchy tree to 10m high with heavy branches and a spreading open crown. Bark brown grey shedding in shaggy flakes. Flowering when l, eafless. Flowers in large terminal racemes; standard petal white with a yellow green blotch at base, keel petals white tinged pink with a tiny yellow blotch at the apex. Infrequent, scattered in fencelines and in highly degraded dry forest with Leucaena, , Caesalpinia exostemma and Crescentia.

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