Botanical Name

Crotalaria glauca Willd. [Fabaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Paul E. Isert

Collection Date-s

1783 – 1786

Collection Location

e Guinea [Ghana: southern part of the country]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1913

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On label: Crotalaria genist(oides: crossed out)ifolia e Guinea mis. Dn. von Rohr (herb. Vahl).

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 27 III 3

Type Status: Crotalaria genistifolia Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 335 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

misit Julius P. B. von Rohr; ex herb. Martin Vahl

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

"This plant was found by Isert in Guinea and communicated to v. Rohr who in turn passed it on to our herbaria." (Schumacher in Hepper 1976 p. 86)

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10003668

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

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