Feedback request: Plantago media (K001013776)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #372614

Taxon:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago media L. ("Hoary Plantain") confirmed by Brenda Harold
Filed in taxon folder:	Plantaginaceae: Plantago media L. ("Hoary Plantain")
Collected by:	Frances Watkins
Collection date:	6/8/2010 16/9/2010
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Marsworth, SP9314, [?? Site appears to be College Lake Wildlife Centre between Tring & Pitstone, E of Canal]
ex herb:	University of East London
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001013776
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	School Of Health And Bioscience, University of East London

Documented by oldnick on 19^th April 2014.

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date	user	change
12/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted determination (orig): Plantago media
12/10/2014	oldnick	Added determination (conf): Plantago media
12/10/2014	oldnick	Added note: School Of Health And Bioscience, University of East London
12/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
12/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC20 Marsworth, [?? Site appears to be College Lake Wildlife Centre between Tring & Pitstone, E of Canal] SP9314 (place)
12/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb (School of Health and Bioscience)
12/10/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb (University of East London)
12/10/2014	oldnick	Added determiner: Brenda Harold

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oldnick wrote

The grid refs given seem faulty - SP93288 and SP93285 - no other site info. SP9388 is near Corby, Northants

[David Price]

SP9328 is near Leighton Buzzard. The Collector is a Medical Herbalist and the School of Health is a department of the University of East London.

[Roger Horton]

University of East London has very helpfully posted the PhD thesis submitted by Dr Watkins on line. There is a map on page 39 beneath which the grid reference for the Plantago media collection is given as SP9328914640, which is within the College Lake Nature Reserve, Bucks.

[oldnick]

Ah - I see now the reference to 'Flora of Herts' on the label; the site you suggest is at Marsworth near Leighton Buzzard, a lake / reservoir near the Grand Union Canal. It seems impossible to know whether the grid ref intended is SP9328 or SP9314, but both are near to each other! I notice Watkins' other specimen in h@h currently is from grid ref SP493531 at Boddington Reservoir between Banbury & Daventry which I see you similarly deduced on http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/379678/ (far distant from Corby, one place I deduced from Watkins' strange grid ref.) But if that grid ref is taken as above to be SP4935, it is on the Oxford Canal between Aynho & Banbury! Let's hope more Watkins specimens crop up to clinch either or both of these.