- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 45952 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 131.01 CHENOPODIACEAE Chenopodium ambrosioides | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Vernacular Name | ||||
| Iso Country | Kenya | TDWG Region | Kenya | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | Kenya | |||
| Uses | Use: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Layzell SG | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/02/1934 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: 'I am glad to learn that you have plants doing well. The oil is distilled cheifly from the fruit but sometimes from the leafy part of the plant. The antihelmintic constituent is ascaridole - about 70% of the oil as recorded in Materia Medic, a (Greenish)' Extract from letter to Major Layzell Tareta Estate Kenya 15th Feb 1934 in reply to his of the 17th Jan 1934 (Sending specimens for name) Copy of complete letter in medicinal cover | ||||