Feedback request: Clinopodium menthifolium (K001028878)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #378313

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Clinopodium calamintha (L.) Stace ("Lesser Calamint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Clinopodium menthifolium (Host) Stace ("Wood Calamint")
Collection date:	7/1947
Locality:	Great Britain, VC3 South Devon, Kingswear, SX85, Dry wall base to quay; Geol: old sandstone
ex herb:	Frank Nigel Hepper
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001028878
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 6^th September 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
06/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
06/09/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC3 Kingswear, Dry wall base to quay; Geol: old sandstone
06/09/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Frank Nigel Hepper
06/09/2014	oldnick	Added collection date: 7/1947
06/09/2014	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
26/12/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Clinopodium menthifolium
26/12/2014	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Clinopodium calamintha

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oldnick wrote

This looks like C menthifolium, but would it have been found in Devon?

[David Price]

No; C. menthifolium is known as a wild native only from Apesdown. IoW. Note the collector himself has named it C. officinalis.

A while back I posted a message concerning Calamintha/Clinopodium nomenclature pointing out that there was a time when the specific epithet 'menthifolia' was incorrectly used to denote C. ascendens.

There are nearly 600 spmns of Clinopodium on H@H of which 2 dozen have been named only to generic level.