Erythroxylum coca Lam.

  • Filed As

    Erythroxylaceae
    Erythroxylum coca Lam.

  • Collector(s)

    Collector unspecified 133, 29 May 1907

  • Location

    Sri Lanka. Peradeniya. Royal Botanic Garden.

  • Description

    The leave of this form are about 2.5 in long, oblong-obovate, tapering to a short stalk, rounded at the apex, the midrib extending beyond into a short sharp point.

  • Notes (shown on label)

    The native country of the Coca being still uncertain, it is necessary for purposes of description to take as the type the earliest described form, which happens to be a Peruvian one, named by Lamarck Erythoxylon Coca, and figured in the Botanical Magazine, 1894, pl. 7334.

  • Collection Notes

    Distributed by C. F. Baker.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 1414318

    Occurrence ID: 26498e51-628d-4e3b-ae3b-9a5c371140ec

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Malpighiales

  • Family

    Erythroxylaceae

  • All Determinations

    Erythroxylum coca Lam. det Determiner unspecified
    Note: ! T. Plowman, 1979

    Erythroxylum

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