Feedback request: Impatiens glandulifera (16)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #258307

Taxon:	Balsaminaceae: Impatiens glandulifera Royle ("Indian Balsam")
Filed in taxon folder:	Balsaminaceae: Impatiens glandulifera Royle ("Indian Balsam")
Collected by:	Malcolm Charles Clark
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, SP0880, Evesham Road, riverside GR 42/0880 [= SP0558? see message board]
ex herb:	Flora of Warwickshire Voucher Specimen
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by tom humphrey on 29^th April 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
31/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC37, Evesham road, riverside SP0880 (col)
31/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC37, Evesham Road, riverside GR 42/0880 SP0880 (col)
01/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC37, Evesham Road, riverside GR 42/0880 SP0880 (col)
01/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC37, Evesham Road, riverside GR 42/0880 [= SP0558? see message board] SP0880 (col)
02/12/2014	xmhcman	Deleted collector: M Clark
02/12/2014	xmhcman	Added collector: Malcolm Charles Clark
02/03/2016	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb (Flora of Warwickshire Voucher Specimen)
02/03/2016	chrisu	Deleted note: Flora of Warwickshire voucher specimen

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oldnick wrote

The GR if interpreted correctly as SP0880 is for Billesley Common in S Birmingham. The GR for Evesham is SP04. Both in Worcs, not Warwicks - and far apart. Evesham Road Cookhill, Alcester is SP0558, Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon is SP1954

[Roger Horton]

Two of Clark's specimens (303672 305134) have handwritten labels as well as the typed ones, which offers the chance of typographical errors.

Indeed sheet 257561 has what may be such an error of 'Bunback Cottage', where the OS map has 'Bowback'.

My guess here is that the intended grid ref. is SP0850, east of Salford Priors and the Evesham Road (probably then the A439) where the River Arrow joins the Avon just inside Warwickshire.

[oldnick]

That sounds very likely to me, but I find the county boundary confusing and can't easily check the VC boundary (assuming the project used them). The situation isn't helped by Clark having 3 'picklist identities'. I found a specimen of his from the above mentioned Salford Priors, labelled with the Grid Ref '0649' http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/278065/

[Roger Horton]

For VC boundaries relating to grid references on the map I would go to Bedfordshire NHS 'Grab a grid reference', enter SP0649, and then select 'Warwickshire' from the 'Toggle Vice-County' menu. It looks as though the 'Flora of Warwickshire' team worked right up to the boundary!