Herbarium specimen: Viola riviniana
| Taxon: | Violaceae: Viola riviniana Rchb. ("Common Dog-violet") named by M J Harvey 1961 |
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| Other name: | Violaceae: Viola canina L. ("Heath Dog-violet") det. Eliza Standerwick Gregory |
| Filed in taxon folder: | Violaceae: Viola riviniana Rchb. ("Common Dog-violet") |
| Collected by: | Miss Charlotte L Peck |
| Collection date: | 5/1905 |
| Locality: | Ireland, VCH36 Tyrone, Clogher, H55, Dry river bed |
| ex herb: | Rev. Augustin Ley Mrs Eliza Standerwick Gregory Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | Description of Irish Violet, after examining fresh specimens:- Has the habit of Riviniana with a central rosette of leaves. It is, however, more fleshy and there are suggestions of canina, especially as regards the anther spur. Root and stems fleshy; stems slightly hairy, with a groove on one side which is ciliate, with exceedingly short hairs; radical leaves on long petioles roundish, slightly longer than broad. Crenatures few and broad, underside glabrous with dark veins, hispid above with erect hairs, having a tubercular base, deeply cordate with a narrow sinus; stipules 1cm long, deeply laciniate, broad at base, tapering to a long fine point: upper leaves roundish. |
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Documented by rodlawes on 27th January 2010.
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