CHR 507743 – Basella alba L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 507743
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
05 February 1996
Database record updated:
22 March 2024
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Basella alba L.
Determiner:
WR Sykes
Identification date:
1995-12-21 (Verbatim: 21/12/1995)
Preferred name:
Basella alba L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Basellaceae
Identification type:
Confirmation
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Basella alba L.
Determiner:
Gardner PC
Identification date:
1995-08-08 (Verbatim: 8-AUG-1995)
Preferred name:
Basella alba L.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Totokoitu Research Station
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-21.2005 -159.769
Verbatim locality:
Totokoitu Research Station
Verbatim collector:
Gardner PC 10167
Standardised collector:
P. C. Gardner
Verbatim date:
8-AUG-1995
Start date:
1995-08-08
Land District:
Rarotonga
Country:
Cook Islands
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
21°12.06´ S 159°46.33´ W (WGS84 -21.201 -159.772167)
Notes:
Also known as "ceylon spinach" and "malabar nightshade". Fleshy climber, spinach ? (matt). Leaves to 20 x 15cm, cordate, with fleshy petiole thick 3 x 0.8cm. Flowers in axillary spikes, white with a pink tinge at but tip, 2-3mm long. Perianth appears 5 lobed, not opening, some stamens present but difficult to see. Fruit green, thin mucilaginous flesh, single brown ovoid seed, 3-4mm long.
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