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Aeschynomene fascicularis Cham. & Schltdl.

· Collected 1730, identified and annotated 4 Oct. 1968

Aeschynomene fascicularis Cham. & Schltdl.
This is a pressed botanical herbarium specimen. The sheet displays dried plant material — slender stems bearing pinnately compound leaves and small seed pods — mounted on archival paper. Manuscript annotations in period ink identify it tentatively as *Hecyferum fruticosum* before a later hand, Velva E. Rudd of the U.S. National Museum, correctly assigned it to *Aeschynomene fascicularis*. A color calibration strip and scale bar are visible at left. The collection note reads "Campechy. 1730. Houston," placing the original gathering in Campeche, Mexico.

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