Botanical Name

Mucuna sloanei Fawc. & Rendle [Fabaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

Aquapim [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1869

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 105 II 1-2

Remark: The data on the locality is taken from Hepper F.N. (1976) The West African Herbaria of Isert and Thonning

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 146

Common Names

Taetjoe-pang [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 96:] "The natives crush the stem and leaves and colour leather black with the expressed sap merely in smearing it over and letting it dry in the air. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004619

C10004619

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)