Feedback request: Pinguicula grandiflora (10151)

[Tom Humphrey]

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Specimen #301127

Taxon:	Pinguicula alpina L. ("Alpine Butterwort") det. Siegfried Jost Casper 1959
Other name:	Pinguicula grandiflora Lam. ("Large-flowered Butterwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Pinguicula grandiflora Lam. ("Large-flowered Butterwort")
Collected by:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Collection date:	1834
Locality:	Great Britain, VC106 East Ross & Cromarty, Ross-shire
ex herb:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Documented by nacs12 on 13^th June 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Pinguicula grandiflora on 1959
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added determination (det): Pinguicula alpina on 1959
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Pinguicula grandiflora
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner: Siegfried Jost Casper
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added collector: Sir William Jackson Hooker
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Siegfried Jost Casper
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Pinguicula grandiflora
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (det): Pinguicula alpina on 1959
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added determination (det): Pinguicula alpina on 1959
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Pinguicula grandiflora
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner: Siegfried Jost Casper
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Siegfried Jost Casper
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC80
29/07/2014	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC106, Ross-shire

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tom humphrey wrote

I've received an email enquiry about this specimen, so wanted wider opinions about whether the locality is correctly transcribed (Roxburghshire) - I think it probably is correct, but it's hard to be sure given the vagaries of Baker's handwriting.

[wshuff]

I think it is Ross-shire. Assuming the plants are Pinguicula alpina, this would tally, since P. alpina became extinct in 1919 and was only known from a single site in East Ross. See the BSBI Atlas, p. 581; also Peter Marren's book, Britain's Rare Flowers, p. 185.