Botanical Name

Jacquemontia ovalifolia (Vahl) Hallier f. subsp. ovalifolia [Convolvulaceae]

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 1663–1956

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

Label1: 1. Hb. Liebmann Convulvulus ovalifolius Vahl. guinea

Label2: 2. Convolvulus ovalifolius prostratus. fol. ovatis emarginatis glaberrimis pedunculis
multifloris. Th.

Label3: 2. e guinea d: Dom: Thonning

Label4: 2. Hb. Hornemann. Ipommoea ovalifolia Choisÿ. determ. F. Didr.

Label5: Jacquemontia ovalifolia (Vahl ex West) Hallier f. subsp. ovalifolia Determined by Kenneth
R. Robertson Missouri Botanical Garden 1970

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 25 II 1



Remark: C. ovalifolius Vahl on the same sheet.

Convolvulus coeruleus Schumach. and Thonn. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 101 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 62; 1. ex herb. Frederik M. Liebmann; 2. ex herb. Jens W. Hornemann

Common Names

Klovaké (Accra dialect) [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 49:] "The natives regard the leaves as a good cabbage. The fetish of the Ussu tribe eats this cabbage wherefore none of this tribe dare taste it and the infringement of this command is regarded as a great crime."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10003602

C10003602

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)