Feedback request: Centaurium littorale (20773)

[David Price]

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Specimen #285750

Taxon:	Gentianaceae: Centaurium erythraea Rafn ("Common Centaury")
Filed in taxon folder:	Gentianaceae: Centaurium littorale (Turner ex Sm.) Gilmour ("Seaside Centaury")
Collected by:	William A Mudd
Collection date:	7/1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Ayton, NZ51, Pastures near'
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Centaurium minus

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 6^th January 2010.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
29/11/2011	wonastow	Deleted determination (orig): Centaurium littorale
29/11/2011	wonastow	Added determination (orig): Centaurium erythraea

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wonastow wrote

This is Centaurium erythraea as correctly labelled by Mudd. C. littorale as implied by its specific epithet is a seaside plant: Ayton is well inland.

On H@H there are specimens of C. erythraea from VCC 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 19, 28, 30, 36 and 38 which have been incorrectly posted as C. littorale (and which for the most part were correctly determined by the collector): these await correction. The remaining specimens of C. littorale should be checked individually.