Feedback request: Digitalis purpurea (K001011284)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #369399

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Digitalis purpurea L. ("Foxglove")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Digitalis purpurea L. ("Foxglove")
Collected by:	Charles Baron Clarke
Collection date:	9/6/1886
Locality:	India, Meghalaya, Shallong, 'Shillong', (altitude 5800ft)
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001011284
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	44088
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	'Efferale[?] - flowers nearly white'

Documented by peterwiggins on 9^th February 2014.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
27/03/2014	oldnick	Deleted note: was nearly white
27/03/2014	oldnick	Added note: 'Efferale[?] - flowers nearly white'
27/03/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
27/03/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB [illegible]
27/03/2014	oldnick	Deleted attribute flowerField: flowering
27/03/2014	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
27/03/2014	oldnick	Added attribute collector's number: 44088
28/03/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB [illegible]
28/03/2014	oldnick	Added locality: IN ME Shallong, 'Shillong' altitude: 5800ft

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oldnick wrote

I can't read place name; Clarke has no other specimens from this year currently; possibly Shillay NF885915 but he has no other Outer Hebrides specimens; Shillay / Siolaigh isn't as high as 5800 feet!

[Roger Horton]

Search of herbarium at Kew, where Clarke worked in his later life, shows he collected at Shallong, Meghalaya State, India, in June 1886. Town itself at ~5000ft, highest local peak Lum Shallong is ~6450ft. Example sheet.

[oldnick]

Thanks for that excellent tip. I wasn't aware of that on-line herbarium, and wondered if it contains British or Irish specimens not included in h@h?