Botanical Name

Indigofera pulchra Willd. [Fabaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

Gah and Adampi [Ghana: Accra or Ada]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1891

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 57 II 3-4

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 81

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 92:] "The leaves are dried ground to fine powder and strewn on old leg-injuries which thereafter are bathed with a decoction of the same. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004070

C10004070

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)