Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Liste des fruits, noyaux, graines ou semances des plantes de St. Domingue en ma collection, premier voyage," June 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 1
Notes:
This specimen was possibly Syagrus amara, which was known as petit coco on Guadeloupe and Martinique. Catalogue of the Seed Plants of the West Indies, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/WestIndies/catalog.htm
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Cocos petits
