Botanical Name

Corchorus aestuans L. [Tiliaceae]

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 1663–2062

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: Corchorus aestuans e guinea D: Dom. Tonning.

Label1: Corchorus aestuans L. Determinavit F.N. Hepper Kew 6. 1971

Label2: non fot.

Corchorus polyganus Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 245 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 139

Common Names

Koina-fye [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 124-125:] "Used as the preceding [C. tridens] [...] The leaves are eaten by the natives as cabbage. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10003655

C10003655

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)