HernandiaceaeW/C = Wild Collected |
Hernandia ovigera L.
- Common Name:
- Family: Hernandiaceae
- Country of Origin: tropical East Africa / Madagascar, Malaya to trop Australia / Polynesia
- Habitat:
- Description: [syn. H. peltata Meissn.]
To 40 feet; leaves broadly ovate, peltate, to 8 inches long, usually cordate; flowers greenish-yellow; fruit black, dry, about 1.25 inches in diameter, involucel much inflated, whitish, pear-shaped, to 2.5 inches long, with a large apical opening.
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 199400123
- Source: R. Nicholson - Smith Coll. BG
- Accession Date: 07-14-1994
- Bench: 1105 - AFR:East African Coastal B
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 02-07-2012
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: magnoliids
- Order: Laurales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Hernandiaceae
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