USDA ARS Biocollections - Occurrence Profile

U.S. National Arboretum Herbarium (NA)

Catalog #: NA0095668

Arboretum accession number: 86256

Taxon: Nyssa sylvatica Marshall

Family: Nyssaceae

Collector: NACPEC 2019 Expedition

Number: NACPEC19-035

Date: 2019-09-10

Locality: United States, Kentucky, Powell County, Stanton; Privately owned rental cabin at 200 Punkin Hollow Road.

Latitude/Longitude: 37.880139 -83.757967

Verbatim Coordinates: 37° 52m 48.5s N; 83° 45m 28.68s W

Elevation: 237 meters (777ft)

Habitat: Mixed mesophytic forest: maple-oak-hickory woodland/managed prairie edge; slope: 0° N.slope: 0° N.

Description: Tree; height 40 ft; DBH 27.1 cm; bark brown-black, regularly longitudinally and transversely fissured; leaves obovate to elliptic (base cuneate to rounded, apex acute to acuminate), margins entire proximally and toothed distally; flowers not present; drupes blue-black, 10 mm. Red fall color already present.

Preparations: Pressed specimen

Notes: Seeds collected from one plant. Four herbarium specimens collected; photographed. DNA sample collection number unknown; NACPEC 2019.

Disposition: General herbarium

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Rights Holder: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture

Record ID: 806b760b-85ab-4620-bce6-3fdb0d951313

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Harlan Svoboda, Curator (harlan.svoboda@usda.gov)

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