CHR 498872 A – Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498872 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
20 January 1995
Database record updated:
10 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-07-08 (Verbatim: 8 Jul 1993)
Preferred name:
Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lecythidales
Family:
Lecythidaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Cook Islands, Penrhyn, Omoka Village
Verbatim locality:
Omoka Village.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4187/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
8 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-08
Land District:
Penrhyn
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Waste place with scattered Cocos, outside garden areas.
Notes:
Large spreading tree 10-12 m high with massive trunk. Bark dark, not collected. Leaves glossy green, dark above, with cream midrib and main veins; petiole often purple. Flowers in clusters. Petals 7-8 cm long, white, 2.5-3 cm wide. Stamens 8.5-10 cm long; filaments with lower ⅔rd white; upper ⅓rd rose. Fruit broad ovoid, shallowly 4-lobed with rounded lobes, to 10 x 6.5 cm, i.e. much smaller than the larger ones in the Southern Cooks. Probably originally planted. One tree only.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C, D (Fruit)
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