P. C. Standley | Botanical Collections

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Current Determination: Heliconia wagneriana Petersen

Family: Musaceae

Elevation: 150

Habitat/Microhabitat: dense wet forest

Collector(s): P. C. Standley

Collection Date: 22 April 1947

Description: Uses: Medicine (Balick et al. 2000:177)., Common names: Tzék (Balick et al. 2000:177). Image Notes: Seed: Distinctly faveolate, elaborate inwardly curved hilum, shiny, smooth epidermis, flat, 5.0 mm long x 3.0 mm wide. Seed: 4.0-5.0 mm reiniform seed, with pronounced porboscid hilum. Flat in section and glabrous surface.

Catalog Subset: Economic Botany

Catalog Project: Mesoamerican Ethnobotany

EMu IRN: 2789653

OccurenceID: e82b0211-4851-40ed-98a2-8d13b52ca2c6

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