Botanical Name

Boerhavia procumbens Banks ex Roxb. [Nyctaginaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

Guin. [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1850

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

Boerhavia procumbens Banks ex Roxb.; det. Anton Heimerl; Boerhavia diffusa L. attamen a B. diffusa H[erb]. V[ahl]. differt foliis ovato-orbiculatis ac ovato-lanceolatis subramosis

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 17; ex herb. C. F. Schumacher

Common Names

Tjalala [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

F. N. Hepper: The West African Herbaria of Isert & Thonning p. 80 (1976)

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

NHMD00924995

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY-NC 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)