Feedback request: Tussilago farfara (HU5309)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #237720

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Tussilago farfara L. ("Colt's-foot")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Tussilago farfara L. ("Colt's-foot")
Collected by:	Richard de Gylpyn Benson
Collection date:	14/3/1888
Locality:	Great Britain, VC40 Shropshire, Kingsland, SJ41
Institution:	Shrewsbury School (SHYB)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johnhawksford on 11^th October 2007.

Checked by alex lockton

Edit history

date	user	change
13/01/2010	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Richard de Gylpyn Benson
17/01/2010	keith barnett	Added collector: Benson
20/01/2010	alex lockton	Deleted collector: Benson
20/01/2010	alex lockton	Deleted provenance: exherb Richard de Gylpyn Benson
20/01/2010	alex lockton	Added collector: Richard de Gylpyn Benson

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User comments about this sheet

keith barnett wrote

can this be safely attributed to one of the Bensons; Herb. and/or collector?

[Tom Humphrey]

Yes, as ex herb, probably also collector, but am not absolutely certain of the collector.

[alex lockton]

I would be happy to attribute it to Richard Benson. It is in his herbarium, and he hasn't attributed it to anyone else. Normal practice should be to list him as collector unless there is some evidence to the contrary.

To me there is no advantage in creating an aggregate "Benson." This is R de G's specimen and the ID is his. Someone else might conceivably have been with him or picked it, but so what?