Kesur meal - Specimen details

Kesur meal - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 77765

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Plant Name 199.00 CYPERACEAE Actinoscirpus grossus Entry Book Number 21.1983
Artefact Name Kesur meal Vernacular Name
Iso Country India TDWG Region India
Parts Held Kesur meal Geography Description Coasts of India
Uses Kesur mealUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 109 [Cat. No.]
Donor Date 22/08/1983 Donor Notes BK Paul & Co, donated 1926
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: The wild ''Kesurs'' growing on the coasts of India have often been utilised as a famine-food. The bread-stuff from the cultivated species is both sweet and wholesome, the amount of nitrogen present varying from 1.07 to 1.39 percent.
Determinations:199.00 CYPERACEAE Scirpus kysoor
    199.00 CYPERACEAE Actinoscirpus grossus (L.f.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson

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