Botanical Name

Boerhavia diffusa L. [Nyctaginaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

southern part of the country [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1916

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: leg. Thonning in Guinea.

Label1: Boerrhavia adscendens. Cal. ?? ?? (differs ??) in diff. stam. ?? longitero Cor. in
ascend. corollafera longiore. Anth. in ?? flavæ in ascend. ??. flores ?? purpurascens.

Label2: Boerh. paniculata ARd. ??

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 11 I 5




Remark: Might be a type according to Hepper

Boerhavia adscendens Willd. Sp. Pl. (Willd.) 1(1): 19 (1797)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 97

Common Names

Tjalala [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 80:] Natives boil the root bark in soup which they drink for dysentery; moreover it is one of the commonest fetish plants which are used by the natives for their cleansing baths in sicknesses or other cases. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10003410

C10003410

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)