Botanical Name

Indigofera hirsuta L. [Fabaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

John Ryan and Peter Wilhelm Lund

Collection Date-s

1780 – 1808

Collection Location

Ind. orient.

Colonial Context

Danish India 1620–1869

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

Indigofera hirsuta [crossed out] mollissima m.; ab Indig. hirsuta valde differt foliis oblongioribus majoribus spicis brevior pedunculatis

Ownership and Collection Management History

ex herb. C. F. Schumacher [would have been in the herbarium collection of John Ryan who never went himself to India]

Common Names

hairy indigo [English]

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

NHMD00925068

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY-NC 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)