Kesur meal - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 77765 | |||||
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| No Image | 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 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| 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 | ||||