Family: Leguminosae
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Machaerium bangii Rusby
Isotype of Machaerium bangii Rusby
Collector/Expedition: Bang, Miguel
Collection number: 2399
Collection date: 30th August 1894
Country/Territory: Bolivia:La Paz
Collecting locality: Bolivia:Departamento La Paz:Coroica
Habitat: In dry, sunny, gravelly places.
Description: A shrub, not very tall, the stem very thorny, the flowers light-blue.
Miscellaneous notes: Sometimes the Indians use the leaves instead of coca.
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SHEET
Barcode: E00296795
Herbarium region: 17 (W. Tropical South America)
Number of sheets: 1
Associated material:
Herbarium sheetE00296794
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