Feedback request: Orobanche caryophyllacea (35573)

[David Price]

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Specimen #360907

Taxon:	Orobanchaceae: Orobanche rapum-genistae Thuill. ("Greater Broomrape")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orobanchaceae: Orobanche caryophyllacea Sm. ("Bedstraw Broomrape")
Collected by:	Mr John Bishop Duncan
Collection date:	6/1901
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Dowles Brook, SO76, 'Duby Brook, near Dunby' [only likely place in Worcs is Dunley]
ex herb:	Mr Isaac A Helsby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Orobanche major

Documented by xmhcman on 23^rd March 2013.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
28/11/2013	wonastow	Deleted determination (orig): Orobanche caryophyllacea
28/11/2013	wonastow	Added determination (orig): Orobanche rapum-genistae
28/11/2013	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC37 Dunley, 'Duby Brook, near Dunby' [only likely place in Worcs is Dunley] SO76 (place)
28/11/2013	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC37 Dowles Brook, 'Duby Brook, near Dunby' [only likely place in Worcs is Dunley] SO76 (place)

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wonastow wrote

Orobanche caryophyllacea is a plant of maritime S E Kent. This is surely O. rapum-genistae (as the label says) or O. minor. "Duby", "Dunby" look like transcription errors for Dowles and Dowles Brook, near Bewdley, where Duncan was botanising in June 1901.

[Roger Horton]

The only other specimens for JB Duncan 6/1901 are from south of Bewdley: Holt Fleet, Ribbesford, and Blackstone; where there is also the village of Dunley (OS SO7869) with the Burnthorne and Dick Brooks. Dowles Brook is north of Bewdley.

[David Price]

I recently identified about a dozen specimens attributed to "JBD" as being Duncan's and edited them. He seems to have botanised around Wyre Forest a number of times: I don't suppose H@H displays an exhaustive catalogue of his localities. Isaac Helsby often misspells place-names. I just thought Dowles was a likely possibility.