Stems - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 61310 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Sesbania cannabina | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Stems | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Kenya | TDWG Region | Kenya | ||
| Parts Held | Stems | Geography Description | Kenya, Nairobi | ||
| Uses | StemsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Napier Miss | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/04/1930 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter M903, 1930, Dr Metcalfes report on specimens, and letter to Major Chipps July 25/30. 1. Fungus like substance on the roots of sesbania The material sent agrees very closely in structure the floating tissue described by Scott and, Water (Annals of Botany Vol I) on the parts of the stem and roots of Sesbania aculeata. The tissue by a thellogen? a short distance beneath the ?? However it differs from true cork in that the cells do not lose their living contents and the cell walls d, o not become suberized. See Scheruck on Prongsturns Jahrbichur?? vol xx p524. See Kew Bulleting 1931, pp 151-154. Aerenchyma of Sesbania, report to Miss Napier Sept 1930. Label source: Sesbania, not aculeata from pond in Thompsons estate. | ||||