Rootstock - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 98069 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Dolichos malosanus | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Rootstock | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Tanzania | TDWG Region | Tanzania | ||
| Parts Held | Rootstock | Geography Description | Lupa Forest Reserve. 95 mls N Mbeya, Itigi road. 1435m. On upper slope, in woodland. Suffrutex to 1m, from woody 'bulb' of 10cms. dia. | ||
| Uses | RootstockUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Boaler, S.B. | Collector No | 700 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 05/11/1962 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Flora Zambesiaca: 'The majority of species have a perennial rootstock, often large and woody or fibrous, from which annual stems arise.This lifeform, referred to as a geoxylic suffrutex, is believed to be an adaptation to survival in seasonally burnt habi, tats.' | ||||