Twig/ Root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 72245 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 121.00 PEDALIACEAE Harpagophyton zeyheri | Entry Book Number | 62.1992.12 | |
| Artefact Name | Twig/ Root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Botswana | TDWG Region | Botswana | ||
| Parts Held | Twig/ Root | Geography Description | Botswana, Chobe District, Kachikau-Savuti road | ||
| Uses | Twig/ RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Cook REM, Terry J, Sydes CL | Collector No | 228 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 09/05/1990 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: 43.6km from Kachikau (alternative name is Kachekabwe) on Kachikau-Savuti road. Altitude 880m. Trailing herb. stems reach several metres from main tap root. Several stems lead from the main root and these occasionally branch. In bare open, non shaded spots within drought deciduous shrubland. Species present; Monbretum elaeagniodes with scattered larger shrubs of Croton, Acacia spp. and trees of Baikaea. Tufts of Eragrostis and Stipa grostis (to 1m) also Soil; Pale sand. Other materials;, Photo FC AU213. Carp. sample. Tuber sample in Economic Botany collection (K). Wakehurst Place Seed Bank. Duplicates GAB. Wakehurst Place. Related to H procumbens which is used and sold in Europe as a medicine. | ||||