Feedback request: Clinopodium ascendens (K001028952)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #375978

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Clinopodium ascendens (Jord.) Samp. ("Common Calamint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Clinopodium ascendens (Jord.) Samp. ("Common Calamint")
Collected by:	Mr Frederic Stratton
Collection date:	10/1869
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Carisbrooke Castle, SZ48
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001028952
Image: © Kew

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Documented by oldnick on 7^th July 2014.

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oldnick wrote

Could this be C menthifolium as originally labelled? I couldn't tell from the photo

[David Price]

What is now called Clinopodium (formerly Calamintha) menthifolium (the rare one from Apesdown, IoW) was then called C. sylvatica.

What is now C. ascendans was then C. menthifolium - with two varieties - var. genuina and var. Briggsii.

Sowerby's English Botany 3 ed. (ed. Syme) refers. See also the remarks in Journal of Botany at http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Journal-of-Botany-British-and-Foreign-Volume-51/592131/313

This specimen is C. ascendans.

[oldnick]

aha.....thanks!