CHR 498823 – Ximenia americana L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498823
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
20 January 1995
Database record updated:
17 November 2014
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ximenia americana L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-07-04 (Verbatim: 4 Jul 1993)
Preferred name:
Ximenia americana L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Santalales
Family:
Olacaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
South of Omoka Village, Airstrip
Verbatim locality:
South of Omoka Village, Airstrip.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4138/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
4 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-04
Land District:
Penrhyn
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Margin of cleared area by runway just in front of Cocos forest.
Notes:
Small bushy tree c. 3 m high, habit rather dense and with copious thorns except on main trunk. Leaves rather yellowish-green, membranous. Flowers c. 1 cm long; perianth segments narrow oblong, pale green on reverse, pinkish-white inside, bearded, strongly reflexed. Fruits mostly still young, most mature ones to 2.5 x 1.8 cm, broad ellipsoid-oblong, becoming yellow. Flesh pale, edible but tart. Seed light brown, c. 2 cm long. Fruits from different trees. Fairly common but scattered, along and just inside coconut forest.
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