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Herbarium specimen: Cirsium acaule

Taxon:Asteraceae: Cirsium acaule (L.) Scop. ("Dwarf Thistle")
Other name:Cnicus acaulis var. tuberosus
Collected by:Sir William Jackson Hooker (a)
Collection date:8/1838
Locality:Great Britain, VC15 East Kent, Coombe Wood
donated by:Prof John Hutton Balfour (Donation to Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society, apparently arranged by William Carmichael MacIntosh ) 1880
Institution:Perth Museum and Art Gallery (PTH)
Accession number:PTH.2005.27.4414
notes:Possible mistake on label re county as there is a Coombe Wood
near Kew Gardens (where Hooker, William Jackson, Sir was
director) in Surrey but there are also sites in Kent eg TQ9136;
stuck-on label, pale blue sheet, watermark crowned fleur-de-lis,
2005.27.4414-4415 together

Inferred details are marked.

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