Botanical Name

Uvaria chamae Beauvais [Annonaceae]

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 1663–2007

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: e Guinea Thonning Seq. Schum. Ms: U. cylindrica scr. J. Grøntved

Label1: Uvaria macrocarpa fol: ovali-oblongis nitidis pedunc: subsolitarii-unifloris petalis
æqvalib. subrotundis - T

Label2: Uaria chamae Determinavit Boutique 22/VI/1951

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 109 I 2

Uvaria cylindrica Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 256 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 44

Common Names

Abada [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 25:] "The leaves have a laurel-like odour; they are pounded fresh and applied to old legbone injuries. The root is used to dispel tumour testiculi; a decoction is used internally and an ointment externally; derived from the finely
grated root. The decoction is also drunk for gonorrhoea. The seeds are enveloped in a tasty sweetish jelly; they are roasted and eaten. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004675

C10004675

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)