Botanical Name

Jacquemontia ovalifolia (Vahl) Hallier f. subsp. ovalifolia [Convolvulaceae]

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 1663–1954

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

Label1: Hb. Hornemann. Convulvulus ovalifolius 62 Guin: D.Th. Coeruleus Th: Collector:

Label2: Jacquemontia ovalifolia (Vahl ex West) Hallier f. subsp. ovalifolia Determined by Kenneth
R. Robertson 1970 Missouri Botanical Garden

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 25 II 2

Convolvulus coeruleus Schumach. and Thonn. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 101 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 62; ex herb. Jens W. Hornemann

Common Names

Klovaké (Accra dialect) [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 49:] "The natives regard the leaves as a good cabbage. The fetish of the Ussu tribe eats this cabbage wherefore none of this tribe dare taste it and the infringement of this command is regarded as a great crime."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10003600

C10003600

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)