Feedback request: Baldellia ranunculoides (K000773691)

[Kelly Pinnick]

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Specimen #337474

Taxon:	Baldellia ranunculoides (L.) Parl. ("Lesser Water-plantain")
Filed in taxon folder:	Baldellia ranunculoides (L.) Parl. ("Lesser Water-plantain")
Collection date:	16/8/1902
Locality:	Great Britain, VC9 Dorset, Corfe Common, SY98, Shallow pond on Corfe Common
ex herb:	Mr Lester Vallis Lester-Garland
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000773691
Image: © Kew

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kellypinnick on 30^th May 2012.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mr Lester Vallis Lester-Garland
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC9 Purbeck Hills, Shallow pond on Corfe Common
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC9 Corfe Common, Shallow pond on Corfe Common

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kellypinnick wrote

Again, requesting confirmation for my first set of sheets...assuming RBG Kew goes in the herbarium field (from the stamp)and L.V. Lester-Garland goes in the collected by field? Or is Lester-Garland also for the herbarium field as this specimin was donated by LG?
Also, I noticed on the how to document a herbarium page there is reference to an accession number. Is this now the collectors number field? Thanks, Kelly.

[Tom Humphrey]

Usually 'Kew' would go in the ex herb field (if the specimen was from elsewhere), but because the sheet is from Kew's herbarium there's no need to explicitly record this. It doesn't matter much if Lester-Garland is noted in both the collector and ex herb fields or only as collector, there are lots of ambiguous cases. For a sheet like this I generally would note the name in both fields.

For this sheet the accession number is the Kew barcode number, which has already been linked to the specimen when the image was loaded on-line.

Collector numbers are serial numbers that some collectors used to link specimens with entries in their personal catalogues or field notebooks. Such numbers are typically handwritten on the label. There's more information here. This specimen doesn't have a collector number.

I need to update the help files regarding accession numbers v's collector numbers.