Wood and bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 78964 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.02 LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE Caesalpinia exostemma | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood and bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Honduras | TDWG Region | Honduras | ||
| Parts Held | Wood and bark | Geography Description | Honduras: Comayaygua Valley | ||
| Uses | Wood and barkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Lewis GP | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Lewis GP, Hughes CE | Collector No | 1708 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 10/02/1989 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Collecting notes:x0Dx0AHonduras: Comayaygua Valley, 8kn SW of town of Comayagua on road to El Taladro. x0Dx0A14°26'N 87°42'W. Alt. ± 550m.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AHighly distrubed seasonally dry tropical forest. Acacia (?) picachensis ('biscuite') dominant.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AMultilple-trunked treel, et to 3m; DBH of main trunk 8cm, branching contorted, crown open; bark thin, mid-grey, heavily lenticelled with roundish white, pustular lenticels; outer slash pea-green (slash odour with strong smell of fresh garden pea), wood hard, white. Foliage yellow, ish green, sometimes with a bluish tinge, lower leaves with larger, broader leaflets held open, upper leaves with narrower somewhat closed leaflets. Flowers without scent, calyx yellowish-greenish-orange, lateral petals sunshine yellow, 'standard' scarlet, with a yellowish margin, stamen filaments yellowish green at base, pinkish red at apex, anthers deep blood red on front face. All petals ultimately fading to orangish-red. Young fruits with black glands.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ARobber bees drill a hole in side of calyx to ex, tract copious nectar - sample of visiting bees collected.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AWOOD, PHOTOGRAPHS, FLOWERS FIXED IN FAAx0Dx0ADUPLICATES: EAP | ||||