Spores - Specimen details
Catalogue Number: 73502 | |||||
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No Image | Plant Name | 250.00 LYCOPODIACEAE Lycopodium clavatum | Entry Book Number | ||
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Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
Parts Held | Spores | Geography Description | Europe | ||
Uses | SporesUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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Notes: | These spores are still widely used as a coating on Pharm. pills. They form a very fine yellow powder, without odour, which due to its waxy constituents, and nearly 50% of a fatty oil, is non-wettable. Dr WBG Jacobson, in SWA Wittenschaftliche Gesellshaf, t Newsletter, April 1986. Also used as a condom lubricant (New Scientist 198.) |