Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 38277 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Phyllocarpus septentrionalis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Guatemala | TDWG Region | Guatemala | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Guatemala, Zacapa, Rio Blanco | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Lewis G | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/09/1989 | Donor Notes | Forest Herbarium Oxford Univx0Dx0A | ||
| Collector | Hughes CE, Lewis GP | Collector No | 1224 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 13/02/1989 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Close to the small settlement of Rio Blanco which lies about 5 km south of the departmental town of Zacapa on the road towards Chiquimula; close to the Rio Zacapa. Large tree to 16m ht. with heavy branching and a spreading crown. Bark dark, blackish grey; granulated texture. Spectacular display of scarlet flowers, tightly packed along branchlets; flowers in clusters, sepals crimson, anthers cream. Flowering when virtually leafless with only a few persistent leaves on lower branches. Locally, common in highly degraded dry forest with Acacia picachensis, Caesalpinia pulcherrima and Thouinidium decandrum, otherwise rare in this part of the Motagua valley. | ||||