Merostachys sp.
date: label: Collection Date
content: 25 Mar 1981
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 42 - Malesia
label: Collector
content: Paul M. Taylor
notes: label: Notes
content: The only information on the specimen is a tag, which says "P417, Kakara Baru, 25 March 1981, Tbl: o tiba ma gare-garehe." This record was compiled based off the contextual information in Case 27 Drawer 5. The other items in the drawer, as well as the drawer under it, are all labelled similarly. One of them is labelled as Taylor, P.M. "Tbl" most likely refers to Tobelo or Tobelorese, a language/region in Indonesia. Page 86 of Paul Michael Taylor's book "A Folk Biology of the Tobelo People," a publication of the Smithsonian Institution, lists "Tbl" as an abbreviation for "Tobelo (=Tobelorese)." Taylor has been listed as the collector due to the similarly labelled specimens in the drawer, the Indonesia locality, and the use of "Tbl" and Tobelo local names. However, it is possible this is not correct. This same book states that "o tiba" can mean "bamboo" and that "ma gare-garehe" means "white." Taylor (pg. 43) specially says "tiba (Schizostachyum sp.; a bamboo)." However, it is unclear if "o tiba" is used to refer to other bamboo genus and species.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: "Kakara Baru", Maluku, Indonesia, Asia-Tropical
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content: Botany
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Merostachys sp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 01860013
label: Other Numbers
content: Case:Drawer : 2705003
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Bambusoideae