Feedback request: Persicaria lapathifolia (40084)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #365990

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Delarbre ("Pale Persicaria")
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Delarbre ("Pale Persicaria")
Collected by:	Mr Edward Charles Wallace
Collection date:	16/9/1934
Locality:	Great Britain, VC13 West Sussex, Shillinglea Park, SU968325, By lake
ex herb:	Mr Job Edward Lousley Mr Edward Charles Wallace
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Filing note:	Polygonum nodosum

Documented by xmhcman on 19^th December 2013.

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xmhcman wrote

C E Britton here (and on several other sheets recently) determines the taxon other than that in the file note (Polygonum nodosum) or database taxon (Persicaria lapathifolia). Any ideas please on how this should be recorded by those without the detailed knowledge of CEB?

[oldnick]

I think CEB is agreeing with P nodosum and adding a note about the variety. The system doesn't allow for varieties, and most people on h@h regard them as eccentric or trivial or irrelevant - which they likely mostly are. But I usually enter them in the notes field because I feel in many cases (though not this one) they are the raison d'etre for the specimen being collected (eg a variety of a very common species, or a white-flowered Red Dead-nettle, etc) and therefore fitted to the historical aspect of the project, at least. CEB was the original leading person I think on Knapweed taxonomy and his info on this now seems quite relevant.

[Roger Horton]

Thanks!