Botanical Name

Launaea taraxacifolia (Willd.) Amin ex C. Jeffrey [Asteraceae]

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 1663–1976

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 63 III 4-5.

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 107

Common Names

Abloge [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 43:] "Europeans use it as salad under the name of wild endive. It has a bitterish taste and slightly narcotic odour; the natives use the expressed sap for alleviation of pain in fresh wounds. The decoction or the leaves prepared as cabbage are used in dysentery (blood-flux). It has a similar appearance to Lactuca scariola. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004112

C10004112

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)