Feedback request: Plantago major (200705161656_2907)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #243549

Taxon:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago major L. ("Greater Plantain")
Filed in taxon folder:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago major L. ("Greater Plantain")
Collected by:	Rachel Ford Thompson F P Thompson
Collection date:	6/8/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC64 Mid-west Yorkshire, Settle, SD86
ex herb:	Rachel Ford Thompson F P Thompson
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by CLL on 14^th January 2008.

Checked by keith barnett

Edit history

date	user	change
16/03/2010	tom humphrey (bulk edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb (R F & F P Thompson)
16/03/2010	tom humphrey (bulk edit)	Added provenance: exherb Rachel Ford Thompson
16/03/2010	tom humphrey (bulk edit)	Added provenance: exherb F P Thompson

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keith barnett wrote

possibly P.major ssp. intermedia

[Chris Liffen]

Is that on the basis of leaf venation / size ?
merely curious
chris

[keith barnett]

Hi Chris

It looks like the ssp intermedia we have been finding here in VC37, mostly in my area in bare, ofte arablr, arable margins. The venation looks right, although the specimen is somewhat crumpled with age, as does the more or less cuneate base. I can't see the hairs near the base we always find here, but they may now have been destroyed, I suppose. Of course, I couldn't count the seeds!! I see that the collector called his specimen var. intermedia, otherwise I probably wouldn't have considered the possibility of the ssp. What do you think?

Nice to contact you.

Best wishes

Keith.

[Chris Liffen]

My taxonomic skills are so atrophied that I would not like to hazard a guess! but always willing to learn.
regards
chris