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Herbarium specimen: Oreopteris limbosperma

Taxon:Thelypteridaceae: Oreopteris limbosperma (All.) Holub ("Lemon-scented Fern")
Filed in taxon folder:Thelypteridaceae: Oreopteris limbosperma (All.) Holub ("Lemon-scented Fern")
Collected by:Rev Joseph Hesselgrave Thompson
Collection date:9/1879
Locality:Austria, Gastein, Bockstein, near Gastein
ex herb:Rev William Hunt Painter
Institution:Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:Oreopteris limbosperma herbarium specimen from Gastein in 1879 by Rev Joseph Hesselgrave Thompson.
notes:[site - 'At the head of the Gastein valley, on the upper "step", nestles the old village of Böckstein (1,131m/3,711ft), with its Baroque pilgrimage and parish church (1766) the domed ceiling of which has frescos depicting groups of miners. Also worth seeing is the Böcksteiner Montanmuseum Hohe Tauern (coal and steel museum) in Altböckstein.'
see http://www.planetware.com/gastein-valley/bockstein-a-s-bock.htm]

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