Feedback request: Plantago coronopus (K001013534)

[wshuff]

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Specimen #370005

Taxon:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago coronopus L. ("Buck's-horn Plantain")
Filed in taxon folder:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago coronopus L. ("Buck's-horn Plantain")
Collection date:	6/1942
Locality:	Great Britain, VC70 Cumberland, Selker Cliffs, SD0788, cliff tops, (altitude 50ft)
ex herb:	Frank Nigel Hepper
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001013534
Image: © Kew
notes:	Quantity: a. Height: 5". [Packet included]

Documented by wshuff on 21^st February 2014.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
21/02/2014	wshuff	Added locality: GB VC70 Selker [?] Cliffs, cliff tops SD0788 (place) altitude: 50ft
21/02/2014	wshuff	Deleted locality: GB VC70 Selher [?] Cliffs, cliff tops altitude: 50ft
22/02/2014	wshuff	Deleted locality: GB VC70 Selker [?] Cliffs, cliff tops SD0788 (place) altitude: 50ft
22/02/2014	wshuff	Added locality: GB VC70 Selker Cliffs, cliff tops SD0788 (place) altitude: 50ft

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wshuff wrote

Location unclear

[Chris Liffen]

Selker ?


OS Grid reference SD075885

[wshuff]

From the 1:25K OS map and the satellite view it’s doubtful whether there are any real cliffs there, but the name fits, so I’ll put Selker in with a question mark. Thanks.

[Chris Liffen]

Indeed - a matter of definition but
see
Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms, Volume 2
edited by Eric Bird.
photograph of Selker Point and cliff erosion

[wshuff]

Thanks for this information! Obviously there are cliffs there, albeit small ones. Also the altitude looks about right. I have now removed the question mark since I guess we can now reasonably take this to be the correct locality.