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Details for: PI 438905,
Parmentiera aculeata
(Kunth) Seem., HW 0179
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Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Parmentiera aculeata
(Kunth) Seem.
Top Name:
HW 0179
Origin:
Collected – Mexico
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Dec 1979
PI Assigned:
1980
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Inventory Volume:
188
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Parmentiera aculeata
(Kunth) Seem.
Top Name:
HW 0179
Origin:
Collected – Mexico
Maintained:
Historic Record
Received by NPGS:
Dec 1979
PI Assigned:
1980
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
24 January 1979.
Mexico
Locality:
Private home. Merida, Yucatan
Coordinates:
20.9667, -89.6167
(Map it)
Collector(s):
Clark, Raymond L., USDA, ARS
Winters, Harold F., USDA-ARS
Donated
December 1979.
Maryland, United States
Donor(s):
Clark, R. L., USDA-ARS
Winters, Harold F., USDA-ARS
Accession Names and Identifiers
HW 0179
Type: Exploration identifier
Group: PEO-EXPLORATIONS
Exploration ID links
MIA 25470
Type: Inventory
Narrative
Plant to 10m. Branches spiny. Flowers tubular, green. Fruit oblong, pointed, curved, 5cm diam., 15cm long. Locally called Kat or Pepino de Arbol. Fruit taken for kidney ailments.
Parmentiera aculeata
(Kunth) Seem.
Genus:
Parmentiera
Family:
Bignoniaceae
Tribe:
Crescentieae
Nomen number:
105032
Place of publication:
Bot. voy. Herald 183. 1854
Verified:
08/15/1986
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Crescentia aculeata
Kunth
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Parmentiera edulis
DC.
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English
candletree
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English
cow-okra
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English
food candletree
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Spanish (Guatemala)
cuajilote
2
Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946-1976. Flora of Guatemala.
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