Wood and bark - Specimen details

Wood and bark - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 79341

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Plant Name 57.03 LEGUMINOSAE-MIMOSOIDEAE Acacia occidentalis Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Wood and bark Vernacular Name
Iso Country Mexico TDWG Region Mexico
Parts Held Wood and bark Geography Description Sonora, 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 Contreras JL & Lewis GP Collector No 1571
Collection Notes Collection Date 29/01/1992
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: SEE HERBARIUM MATERIALx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFOREST HERBARIUM OXFORDx0Dx0AUNIVERSITY OF OXFORDx0Dx0AOXFORD x0Dx0AUKx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AFlora of MEXICOx0Dx0Ax0Dx0AState: Sonorax0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACollecting notes: Close to the main road running E from Bacanora towards Sahuaripa about 10km from Bacanora on low gravelly hills a, bout 200km E of Hermosillo.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ASmall branchy tree with an open crown to 4m ht. Bark dark grey brown, rough with vertical fissures, inner bark cinnamon brown then cream. Leaves recently flushed and immature. Covered in sweetly scented flowers, in globose h, eadas bourne directly on the old wood. Buds green then tinged maroon, camyx and corolla green, strongly tinged bright purple, stamens and style creamy white, anthers dark blackish brown, ovary green.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AInfrequent, scattered in dry thorn scrub with Caealp, inia pulcherrima, Piscidia mollis, Acacia, Prosopis and Alvaradoa.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AAssociated material: Flowers Photos Woodx0Dx0ADuplicates: FCME, FHO(Forest Herbarium Oxford), K(RBG Kew), MEXU(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), NY(New York Botanical Gardens)x0Dx0Ax0Dx0ACo, llected under project R4524 of the UK Overseas Development Admin.x0Dx0A

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