Botanical Name

Indigofera hirsuta L. [Fabaceae]

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 1663–1858

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: HB. SCHUM. 35 Indigofera hispida m. Guin: D. Thonn. Indigofera ferruginea Collect:
Ind: hirsuta Jacq: ic: rar: conv: nostro foliis bijugis septemis figur: foliolor: vero exacte
similis hirsuti Ind: orient: et rev: planta nostra foliis obovatis subretusis mucronatis Legumina
plantae Jacquini an sunt pilis candicandibus obsita? Cfr: Coll: 2.

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 59 I 1-2

Indigofera ferruginea Schumach. and Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 370 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 35; ex herb. C. F. Schumacher

Common Names

hairy indigo [English]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) pp. 90-91:] "I have nowhere found it in such numbers that I could institute a regular experiment with it: I collected part of it; removed the stems; and compressed the rest in a very large glass and infused the same with water but it became putrescent without fermenting; neither does the colouring of the leaves and outward aspect indicate any indigo. I doubt whether it has name or utility for the natives; at least I have not been able to discover any of these. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004053

C10004053

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)