Root and stem - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 47935 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 114.01 SOLANACEAE Brunfelsia uniflora | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Root and stem | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Brazil | TDWG Region | Brazil | ||
| Parts Held | Root and stem | Geography Description | Brazil | ||
| Uses | Root and stemUse: MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Digestive System Disorders | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Woodward TB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Root contains a poisonous alkaloid Letter 329, 1924 : XVI p.33 - Samples of two brazilian products. Manaca root is the root of B.hopeana, Benth. and contains a poisonous alkaloid, mandcin. The root, which is sometimes called also Radix Fran, cisceae uniflorae, is stated by Dragendorff (Die Heilpflanzen, 1898) to be used as a purgative, as an emetic and against syphilis etc. The sample labelled manaca contains some stem as well as the root, and appears to be correctly named. Signed L AB 18.9.2, 4. | ||||
| Determinations: | 114.01 SOLANACEAE Brunfelsia uniflora (Pohl) D.Don. 114.01 SOLANACEAE Brunfelsia hopeana Benth. | ||||