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Specimen #359244

Taxon:	Gentianaceae: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch ("Slender Centaury")
Other name:	Erythraea tenuifolia
Filed in taxon folder:	Erythraea tenuifolia
Collected by:	James Walter Long
Collection date:	10/1937
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, SZ
ex herb:	Mr Patrick Martin Hall
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Filing note:	Erythraea tenuifolia ?

Documented by oldnick on 24^th February 2013.

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date	user	change
24/01/2014	geoff toone	Deleted locality: GB VC10 Isle of Wight
24/01/2014	geoff toone	Added locality: GB VC10 Isle of Wight SZ (place)

Specimen #359245

Taxon:	Gentianaceae: Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch ("Slender Centaury")
Other name:	Erythraea tenuifolia
Filed in taxon folder:	Erythraea tenuifolia
Collected by:	Mr Patrick Martin Hall
Collection date:	9/8/1935
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, SZ48, Cannot be assigned to a hectad - therefore 'SZ' only.
ex herb:	Richard Barker Ullman Mr Patrick Martin Hall
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
collector's number:	1539
Filing note:	Erythraea tenuifolia ?

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Documented by oldnick on 24^th February 2013.

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24/01/2014	geoff toone	Deleted locality: GB VC10 Isle of Wight
24/01/2014	geoff toone	Added locality: GB VC10 Isle of Wight, Cannot be assigned to a hectad - therefore 'SZ' only.

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oldnick wrote

Is Centaurium tenuiflorum the correct name?

[geoff toone]

This is an important specimen. The current status of IoW records of this taxon should probably be Aff. Centuarium tenuiflorum. The flower colour is the most obvious disparity, and consistent by area, the Island's all being pink. There are other differences.

The Devon (vc9) sites on warm, wet landslipped clays contrast with vc10's (where there are similar habitats) being usually saltmarsh-edge clays, along the Solent shore of the Island. Several spots along the Medina, at King's Quay and with an outlier at Freshwater. None of them now extant. I visited the last known clump with PDS last year and we could find none.