Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 38289

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Leucaena diversifolia Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country El Salvador TDWG Region El Salvador
Parts Held Wood Geography Description El Salvador, Ahuachapan
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 Herb Oxford Univx0Dx0A
Collector Hughes CE, Lewis GP, Berendsohn W, Villacorta R Collector No 1233
Collection Notes Collection Date 16/02/1989
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Near La Mirador which lies in the Finca San Benito in coastal hills about 20km inland from the Pacific coast about 30km WNW of the port of Acajutla, near the El Imposible forest reserve. Small tree to 5m ht. with light branching and an open, crown. Bark mid grey brown with shallow vertical orange-brown fissures. Flower heads pale pink, stamen filaments white, anthers rose pink ageing lilac, hairy, style white protruding beyond stamens giving a star-like flower head profile. A few unripe pods, reddish-maroon tinged green, glossy. Locally frequent, scattered in secondary forest with Albizia adinocephala and Piptadenia obliqua on an exposed dry freely drained ridge

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