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Chataignier (leaves)

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

December 1773

Primary Source Reference:

"Vegetaux de St. Domingue ramassées dans mon Second voyage," December 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 4

Notes:

Species identified in Aimée Camus, Les châtaigniers: monographie des genres Castanea et Castanopsis (Paris, 1928) and 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:

Chataignier

Current Scientific Name

Cupania americana