Feedback request: Mentha villosa (K001027811)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #378111

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa Huds. ("Apple-mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa Huds. ("Apple-mint")
Collection date:	3/10/1830
Locality:
ex herb:	George Bentham
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027811
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Mentha pyramidalis Ten. Hort. Gott. {Later pencil note:] This is M. x villosa Huds. hairy form.
Filing note:	hairy form

Documented by xmhcman on 1^st September 2014.

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xmhcman wrote

'Hort. Gott.' is presumably a reference to 'Catalogus plantarum Horti academici et agri gottingensis (1757)', and not an indication that the plant was cultivated.