Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

Back to search results

Catalogue Number: 560

No Image
Plant Name 12.01 CAPPARACEAE Cleome glandulosa Entry Book Number 20.1983
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Peru TDWG Region Peru
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Peru, Junin Department, Tarma Province
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor British Museum (Natural History) Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Iltis HH, Iltis CM, Ugent D, Ugent V Collector No 27
Collection Notes Collection Date 24/11/1962
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Opuscular source: 2700m Rocky wall near edge of field. Common 3-4m shrub. A. Shrubs & damp thickets along small streamlet. B. Steep rocky NE-facing hillsides, dry, with few shrubs, cacti, Bromeliads, Cleome glandulosa etc. C. Roadsides. 2 Km NE of Palca, in valley of Rio Tarma on road to San Ramon. Map included. Additional Notes: Fls. light lemon yellow, filament tips purple. Shrub 3-4m tall, branched, ca. 5cm dbh. Leaflets curved, 'falcate', the margins wavy, glandular both sides. Petals pale greenish-ye, llow lower 1/2, deep reddish-purple upper 1/2. Petals stiff but rather thin, at anthesis adherent together standing erect. Disk green, secreting nectar on undulating top as well as on sides without. Fruiting disk purple. Broken plant regeneration from st, ump sprouts! Faint fetid odour - plant collected 6pm (#47) much more glandular and sticky.

Simple search   |   Amend search