Indigofera pulchra Willd. [Fabaceae]
Item
- Botanical Name
- Indigofera pulchra Willd. [Fabaceae]
- Specimen Type
- Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]
- Collector
- Paul E. Isert
- Collection Date-s
- 1783 – 1786
- Collection Location
- Guinea [Ghana]
- Colonial Context
- Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1963
- Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status
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On label: Indigofera pulchra n.d. I. Guineae arenosis
IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 57 II 1-2
Type Status: Indigofera pulchra Willd. SYNTYPE. Sp. Pl. (Willd.) 3(2): 1239 (1800) - Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge
- [Hepper (1976) p. 92:] "The leaves are dried ground to fine powder and strewn on old leg-injuries which thereafter are bathed with a decoction of the same. Th."
- Source
- Herbarium C NHMD
- NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number
- C10004068
- Copyright Owner
- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Copyright License
- CC BY-NC 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)
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