Pupalia lappacea (L.) Juss. [Amaranthaceae]
Item
- Botanical Name
- Pupalia lappacea (L.) Juss. [Amaranthaceae]
- 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 1663–2010
- Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status
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On sheet(scrips.Schum.): Desmochaeta mollis 163 Achyranthes scandens cfr: echinata mollis. m:
Collect: Guin. D. Th. non Ach: scandens roxb: alia plant
On label: Pupalia lappacea (L:) Juss. Det. F.N. Hepper 9. 1966
IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 2 II 4-5
Achyranthes mollis Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 137 (1827) - Ownership and Collection Management History
- Thonning 163
- Common Names
- Mem'lemeté [Schumacher/Thonning]
- Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge
- [Hepper (1976) p. 23:] "From the whole plant an ash-dye is prepared which natives use for painting blue. Th."
- Source
- Herbarium C NHMD
- NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number
- C10003288
- C10003288
- Copyright Owner
- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Copyright License
- CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)
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