Feedback request: Ranunculus ophioglossifolius (2988)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #315746

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus ophioglossifolius Vill. ("Adder's-tongue Spearwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus ophioglossifolius Vill. ("Adder's-tongue Spearwort")
Collected by:	C E Robinson
Collection date:	7/7/1890
Locality:	Great Britain, VC33 East Gloucestershire, Up Hatherley, SO92
ex herb:	C E Robinson
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mossysal on 22^nd February 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
23/02/2011	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC33 Down Hatherley
23/02/2011	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC33 Up Hatherley

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User comments about this sheet

mossysal wrote

An interesting record but I don't know how to 'Twitter' it!

[David Price]

I think Up Hatherley, SO92, is probably meant which is the Badgeworth site. As the plant was discovered there in 1890 Robinson must have been among the first to see it.

[mossysal]

Thanks, I have edited it - although it is recorded in both hectads. You have the advantage of Flora of Goucestershire.

[Chris Liffen]

Tom wrote
You may have noticed that I added Twitter links to specimen pages a couple of weeks ago.

I don't think anyone has used them yet - but please do so

Apologies is this is stating the obvious...
Twitter is a way of posting very short messages ('tweets') which nominally are supposed to be answers to the question 'What am I doing?' - in a practice people use tweets far more broadly than that.

This could be a good way of highlighting interesting specimens that you've found on herb@home - helping to publicise the work we're doing to a wider audience. Tweets get noticed and rapidly indexed by search engines so can be a good way to spread links.

The twitter link from specimen page fills in part of the tweet message with a link back to the specimen, but there's still room for you to say why it's an important record.

[Tom Humphrey]

Thanks for quoting that, I'd forgotten I'd written it and was contemplating what to say about twitter, as I've still yet to find a use for it.

I think there could be potential in it, so it would be great if someone would take the plunge and start twittering about herbarium specimens.