Wood and bark - Specimen details

Wood and bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 79323

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Leucaena esculenta x leucocephala Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood and bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Wood and bark Geography Description Queretaro
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 & Atkinson R. Collector No 1597
Collection Notes Collection Date 10/02/1992
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: SEE HERBARIUM MATERIALx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFOREST HERBARIUM OXFORDx0Dx0AUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDx0Dx0AOXFORD x0Dx0AUKx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFlora of MEXICOx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AState: Queretarox0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollecting notes: Close to the main road running WNW from Xilitla towards Jalpan de la Sierra about 35km SSE of Jalpan, about 1k, m from the small village of Lagunita towards Jalpan.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AMedium-sized tree with a straight bole to 3m ht. and an open spreading rounded crown to 10m ht. Bark mid grey-brown, smooth, striped rusty brown, inner bark salmon pink. Leaves at all stages of matur, ity, slightly discolourous, petiolar gland green tinged reddish and turning brown with age. Flower heads in leaf axils, pedicel flattened and tinged maroon, a few incipient ''double'' flower heads. Calyx pale creamy green, corolla mid green tinged maroon,, style and stamens creamy white, anthers pale orange brown apparently no pollen, very few pods, glossy green tinged maroon with no seed set.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AInfrequent or rare, the only tree noted in the area, growing near house with Leucaena leucocephala, L. esculent, a, Lonchocarpus hidalgensis, Guazuma ulmifolia, Pithecellobium dulce, Guava and Jacaranda.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0APutative L. esculenta x L. Leucocephala hybrid. x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AAssociated material: Flowers Photos Woodx0Dx0ADuplicates: E, FHO(Forest Herbarium Oxford), K(RBG Kew), MEXU(Unive, rsidad Nacional Autónoma de México), MO (Missouri Botanical Gardens), NY(New York Botanical Gardens)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollected under project R4524 of the UK Overseas Development Admin.x0Dx0A

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