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Plants - Type specimens

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Images about Plants - Type specimens

4 images from works
  • Cittwodi, Hawar or Manchingi (Dolichandrone falcata Seem.): branch with flower and pods, and separate sectioned pods and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
  • A plant (Canthium rheedii) related to Ceylon boxwood: branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Tetracera laevis Vahl: branch with flowers and fruit, separate fruit and cross-section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Kandel or Mangrove plant (Kandelia candel (L.) Druce): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.

Works from the collections

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    A plant (Canthium rheedii) related to Ceylon boxwood: branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.

    | Date: [1685] | Reference: 16056i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Kandel or Mangrove plant (Kandelia candel (L.) Druce): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.

    | Date: [1686] | Reference: 16207i
    • Books

    Order out of chaos : Linnaean plant names and their types / Charlie Jarvis.

    Jarvis, C. E. | Date: 2007
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    The Lewis & Clark herbarium : Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (PH-LC), digital imagery study set / Earle E. Spamer and Richard M. McCourt.

    Spamer, Earle E. | Date: [2002], ©2002
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Cittwodi, Hawar or Manchingi (Dolichandrone falcata Seem.): branch with flower and pods, and separate sectioned pods and seeds. Coloured line engraving.

    | Date: [1686] | Reference: 16198i
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Botany - Pre-Linnean works
Botany - India
Plants, Useful
Tropical plants

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