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 1663–1859

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: Indigof. (hirsuta: crossed out) heptaphÿlla Thonn. vix diff. ab Ind. hirsuta. e Guinea
Thonn. Indigofera ferruginea Schum. & Thonn. J.L./1863. Indigofera hirsuta L. (Oliv.)

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 58 III 6-7

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

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 35

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

C10004054

C10004054

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)