Spines - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 58747 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Acacia seyal | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Spines | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Spines | Geography Description | White Nile | ||
| Uses | SpinesUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Colville Mrs | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/08/1903 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/02/1903 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Sent to RBG Kew Aug 25.03 See letter 96 Fl. Trop Africa II 351 A.seyal var fistula (A.fistula, Schweinf.) Branches with a smooth milk white bark. Leaflets often 1/3 in long. Legumes as in the type 1/4 - 1/3 in broad. Nile land, Matumuna, Dr, Schweinfurth, who also cites it as occurring in Sennaar (?) and forming woods in S.Nubia. The stipular spines are very subject to a monstrous dilatation at the base owing to insect puncture. I should scarcely have reduced this plant to A.seyal were it no, t that we possess a specimen connecting the two forms in the collection of Speke & Grant. Acacia fistula Schwein. = A.seyal Delile (Kew Index) Engler, Pflauz, Ost Afrikes (Reyisler) illustration I XX 9. A.seyal Del. JHH Dec 23 1903 The stems of the trees, and branches are covered with a vivid red dust. The trees are not higher than average trees and were in full bloom in February. Seed vessels green in bunches and are greedily eaten by the camels. As wood the trees are useless, crumbling to a powder by, the action of a minute insect. Collected N of Feshoda about 3 to 5 miles from White Nile. (Extract from letter August 25th 1903, Mrs Coville Dobson, Henley on Themes, to Curator) The above refers to a specimen sent to the museum for name by Mr Hackett, an, d which was determined as Acacia seyal Del. A fistula Schwein. | ||||
| Determinations: | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Acacia seyal (L.) Delile 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Acacia fistula Schweinf. | ||||