CHR 498937 – Muntingia calabura L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498937
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
23 January 1995
Database record updated:
25 March 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Muntingia calabura
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-07-17 (Verbatim: 17 Jul 1993)
Preferred name:
Muntingia calabura L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Malvales
Family:
Elaeocarpaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Motu Tapu, Te Tautua
Verbatim locality:
Motu Tapu, Te Tautua.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4252/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
17 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-17
Land District:
Penrhyn
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Waste place on village outskirts, middle of motu, open Cocos grove.
Notes:
Thicket-forming small tree with main trunks 4-6 m high and the branches ± horizontal, and forming a spreading canopy. Suckering extensively and covering c. ½ hectare. Leaves ± horizontal and in two ranks, soft and downy, paler beneath. Petals white, rather fugaceous, 11-12 mm long, including very short claw, 9-1- mm wide, ± broad obovate, slightly emarginate. Fruit globular, 10-15 mm diameter, becoming crimson; flesh very sweet.
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