Feedback request: Platanthera bifolia (27875)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #381309

Taxon:	Habenaria bifolia ("Lesser Butterfly-orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Habenaria bifolia ("Lesser Butterfly-orchid")
Collection date:	21/6/1891
Locality:	Great Britain, VC7 North Wiltshire, Bradford-on-Avon, ST86
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by oldnick on 21^st November 2014.

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19/08/2015	johned	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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oldnick wrote

Collector? handwriting not recognised. As with http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/283310/ of Ophrys insectifera, 'Bidford?' (Warks) confusingly has been added in pencil. Neither location fits with any other West sheets around this time.

[oldnick]

I've found 3 other sheets with this handwriting, from Bradford-on-Avon, also marked 'Bidford?' in pencil. They are labelled from Mr & Mrs Welch eg http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/278101/ There don't seem to be any other Welch specimens, but this could be a clue to other West sheets with similar rounded handwriting and lacking collector name eg of the Birm Nat Hist & Phil Soc