Feedback request: Sorbus (35579)

[David Price]

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Specimen #305310

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Pyrus salicifolia Pall. ("Willow-leaved Pear")
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Sorbus L.
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	6/1908
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Kew Gardens, TQ17
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
notes:	'Pyrus "salicifolia"'
Filing note:	Sorbus sp. indet (box 407)

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by wonastow on 5^th August 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
26/03/2011	tim rich	Deleted determination (orig): Sorbus
26/03/2011	tim rich	Added determination (orig): Pyrus salicifolia
02/01/2012	david	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Kew Gardens
02/01/2012	david	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC17 Kew Gardens

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wonastow wrote

Pyrus salicifolia was a synonym for Sorbus rupicola. One of Ley's off days?

[mossysal]

A Ley off day? When did Sorbus (the name) enter the British flora? - there are none in my 1896 B & H or my 1902 Johns' Flowers of the field - even S aucuparia was Pyrus aucuparia.