Feedback request: Centaurea scabiosa (26472)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #350168

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Centaurea scabiosa L. ("Greater Knapweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Centaurea scabiosa L. ("Greater Knapweed")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Collection date:	8/1838
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Steephill, SZ57
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	6500
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kenbalkow on 15^th December 2012.

Checked by tom humphrey

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date	user	change
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Mr Frederick Townsend
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Added collector: Joseph Woods
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mr Frederick Townsend
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Added attribute collector's number: 6500
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: [illegible]
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC10 Steephill [illegible]
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Joseph Woods
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Added collector: Mr Frederick Townsend
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC10 Steephill [illegible]
15/12/2012	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC10 Steephill

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kenbalkow wrote

Can't read location

[Tom Humphrey]

Possibly South Shiels (but very uncertain), as Woods was there that month.

http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/326884/


[the label has a 'J W' initial which in association with Townsend is likely to imply Joseph Woods as collector]

[Chris Liffen]

Steephill ?
where Townsend's relative Hambrough lived .....

[oldnick]

Yes, Steephill; I W = Isle of Wight

[Tom Humphrey]

Thanks.

So much for my confidence in reading 'I.W.' as Woods - if someone else had suggested that I would have tended to be skeptical (given the lack of a Woods date format), but it's too easy to get caught up in my own ideas.