Wood and bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 75928 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 12.01 CAPPARACEAE Capparis pulcherrima | Entry Book Number | 15.1999 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood and bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Venezuela | TDWG Region | Venezuela | ||
| Parts Held | Wood and bark | Geography Description | Venezuela, Southern America, Northern South America, Curarigua | ||
| Uses | Wood and barkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size A | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Iltis HH, Ruiz T, Benitez de Rojas CE | Collector No | 30551 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 10/01/1991 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Only Venezuelan population, otherwise a local endemic of Cartagena, Colombia, disjunct some 600 km to the west cf Thriza Ruiz report in Ernstia 58:41-44, 1990. Much branched shrubs 2-3m tall, stems 4-8cm diam. at base, with dense dark green leaves, now c, overed with hundreds of inflorescences in bud, few flowers, but with gigantic, avocado like fruits, the seeds of which are reported to be poisonous. Region of deeply eroded desert badlands, in the foothills of the Sierra de Barbacoas, at the NE end of the, Venezuelan high Andes; valley of Rio Curarigua, vicinity of Caseraa Buena Vista, a very small settlement along highway 1 km NE of Curarigua (23 km SE of Carora. | ||||