Wood and bark - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 79317 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Leucaena pulverulenta | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood and bark | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Wood and bark | Geography Description | Hidalgo, Mexico | ||
| Uses | Wood and barkUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Forest Herbarium Oxford | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Hughes CE, with Harris SA and Atkinson R. | Collector No | 1590 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 02/02/1992 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | SEE HERBARIUM MATERIALx0Dx0AFOREST HERBARIUM OXFORDx0Dx0AUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDx0Dx0AOXFORD x0Dx0AUKx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFlora of MEXICOx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AState: Hidalgox0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollecting notes: Close to the main road running NE from Jacala towards Tamazunchale, about 7km NE of the small town of Chapalahuaca, n, or 22km SW of Tamazunchale.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASmall multiple-stemmed slender tree with spreading almost pendulous branches to 5m ht. Bark smooth, mid orange brown, inner bark greenish. Leaves slightly doscolourous, petiolar gland orange brown when young, dark brown w, hen older. starting to flower, many buds, green tinged reddish, flower heads in leaf axils on actively growing shoots. Calyx and corolla pale green, stamen filaments and style creamy white, anthers creamy yellow.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AAbundant, scattered in secondary vegeta, tion on roadside cuttings with Cecropia, Burseraceae and Lonchocarpus. Unripe seeds and flower buds eaten as for Leucaena leucocephala which is known and cultivated in the area.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AAssociated material: Flowers Woodx0Dx0ADuplicates: E, FHO(Forest Herbarium Oxf, ord), K(RBG Kew), MEXU(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), MO (Missouri Botanical Gardens), NY(New York Botanical Gardens)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollected under project R4524 of the UK Overseas Development Admin.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0A | ||||