Botanical Name

Indigofera paniculata Vahl ex Pers. [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 1663–1896

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: leg. Thonning in Guinea

On label: Ind. panicul. fol. simp. obt. panicula racemulosa - terminale

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 57 I 1

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

Indigofera procera Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 365 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 204

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 91:] "It attains a considerable height but as it constantly loses the older leaves during growth and the remaining ones are not present in any quantity it will be unusable for this reason; unless cultivation might make some change; but moisture and drought contribute nothing in this respect for I found it identical in moist and dry places. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004064

C10004064

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)