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kkopp



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:52 am    Post subject: Feedback request: Nuphar pumila (3900) Reply with quote

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Specimen #316732

Taxon:Nymphaeaceae: Nuphar pumila (Timm) DC. ("Least Water-lily")
Filed in taxon folder:Nymphaeaceae: Nuphar pumila (Timm) DC. ("Least Water-lily")
Collected by:Symers MacDonald Macvicar
Collection date:1896
Locality:Great Britain, VC97 West Inverness-shire, Sunart, NM76, In 2 feet of water, Loch-na-Ceartach (not found)
Institution:South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:Nuphar pumila herbarium specimen from Sunart, VC97 West Inverness-shire in 1896 by Symers MacDonald Macvicar.
fruits/flowers:no flowers

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Documented by kkopp on 13th March 2011.

Specimen #316733

Taxon:Nymphaeaceae: Nuphar pumila (Timm) DC. ("Least Water-lily")
Filed in taxon folder:Nymphaeaceae: Nuphar pumila (Timm) DC. ("Least Water-lily")
Collected by:Rev. Edward Shearburn Marshall
Collection date:19/7/1889
Locality:Great Britain, VC98 Argyllshire, Kingshouse, NN25
Institution:South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:buds/immature flowers

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Documented by kkopp on 13th March 2011.

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kkopp wrote
Loch-na-Ceartach?


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mossysal



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the 'Sunart' is right then probably Lochain na Cuthaige of which there seem to be two right next door to each other! See
OS Grid reference NM748642
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kkopp



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

THAT seems plausible, but how are we to understand the differences between the collector's and our (or the old and new) names? There doesn't seem to have been a wholesale renaming of features in Scotland, but certainly Mr MacDonald Macvicar (of all people!) should have known the name of the place where he collected the specimen....k
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