Botanical Name

Hippocratea africana Willd. [Celastraceae]

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 1663–1979

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 106 III 3.

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 245

Common Names

Plem-tjo [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 38:] "The white sweetish mucus which surrounds the seeds is eaten by children. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004652

C10004652

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)