Botanical Name

Allophylus spicatus (Poir.) Radlk. [Sapindaceae]

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 1663–2103

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: Hb. Schumacher Ornithrophe cobbe e Guinea d: Dom. Thonning Schmiedelia Spr.
Allophylus spicatus m. Radlk.

On back of sheet: Hb. H. Bg.

On label: ?? & Thonning; I. 1900. ?? ?? Ornitro. spicata guinea Poir. encycl. ?? Hb. Desfont. ??
Hb. Webb.

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 74 I 1-2

Ornitrophe magica Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 186 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 57; ex herb. C. F. Schumacher

Common Names

Tadadua [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 114:] "The bark of the root is sometimes used for application to old leg injuries. The tree and leaves are often used as a fetish in cases of illness; a branch 1½ ells in length is cut off; the bark is scraped off; smeared over with white clay-soil; one end is enwound with bast-rope which is smeared with a red kind of soil; the other end is inserted in the earth in a definite place ordered by the fetish priest or the doctor; usually at a cross road; often an egg or other trifle is laid with it and often several such sticks are set from time to time when the illness will not give way. The leaves are put into cold water with which the sick person is washed; after which the water is thrown out on the ground at the inserted stick. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004238

C10004238

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)