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Herbarium Specimen: Rhynchosia erythrinoides Schltdl. & Cham.

· Collected January 1899; mounted and annotated 1924–1977

Herbarium Specimen: Rhynchosia erythrinoides Schltdl. & Cham.
This is a pressed botanical herbarium sheet, not a satirical print. The mounted specimen — a climbing legume with cordate leaves and raceme inflorescences — was collected in Costa Rica (San José province, Turrialba region) in January 1899 under Herbario Adolfo Tonduz no. 12,951. It carries an isotype label citing Leycephyllum micranthum Piper (1924), later revised to Rhynchosia erythrinoides by John W. Grear (University of Toronto, 1976). The Natural History Museum, London barcode confirms institutional custody. No satirical, caricature, or printmaking tradition applies here. This object belongs to the history of scientific botanical illustration and specimen preservation, not comic art genealogy.

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