Catalogue no.:	V-589157
Taxon:	Erythrina fusca Lour.
Label:	Erythrina glauca
Family:	Fabaceae
Collector:	F.J. Breteler
Collector no.:	3243
Date:	1963 10 31
Country:	Venezuela
Province:	Mérida
Locality:	17 km W of Mérida
Habitat:	Native coffe plantation
Attributes:	Tree, 7 m tall, with flat crown. D.B.H. =35 cm. Bark greenish-brown, with the bases of spines left. Leaflets thickly papery, stif, slightly glossy and dark green above, dull and silverish-green beneath. Calyx brownish-red. Standard yellowish-orange. Upper part of wings red. Lower part of wings and keel cream-coloured