Botanical Name

Indigofera subulata Vahl ex Poir. [Fabaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

Labodei to Ursue [Ghana: Greater Accra Region; between Labadi and Osu]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1854

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet (scrips. Schum.): HB. SCHUM. 45. Indigofera macrophylla m subulata Collect: Guin: D.
Thon: Thonningii: Thonningii

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 57 II 7 - III 1

Remark: Letter of Dec. 10 1948 from the Director of Kew

Remark: The data on the locality is taken from Hepper F.N. (1976) The West African Herbaria of Isert and Thonning

Indigofera thonningii Schumach. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 366 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 45; ex herb. C. F. Schumacher

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

cf. also Encycl. Méthod. Bot. Suppl. 3: 150 (1813).

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004077

C10004077

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)