Feedback request: Erica mackaiana (29217)

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Specimen #352565

Taxon:	Ericaceae: Erica mackaiana Bab. ("Mackay's Heath") [as entered on h@h]
Other name:	Ericaceae: Erica mediterranea L. named by Stafford Edwin Chandler 'If this was gathered at Mallaranny (Mayo, not Galway) it is E. mediterranea as labelled, not E. mackaiana.' - info from David Price
Filed in taxon folder:	Ericaceae: Erica mackaiana Bab. ("Mackay's Heath")
Collected by:	Stafford Edwin Chandler
Collection date:	8/1907
Locality:	Ireland, VCH27 West Mayo, Mallaranny, L89, Boggy ground near Mullaranny Co Galway
ex herb:	Stafford Edwin Chandler Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
Filing note:	Erica mackaii

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Documented by shaw30 on 4^th January 2013.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
08/03/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE VCH27 Mallaranny
08/03/2016	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH27 Mallaranny, Boggy ground near Mullaranny Co Galway
13/03/2016	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Erica mediterranea
13/03/2016	oldnick	Added determiner: Stafford Edwin Chandler
13/03/2016	oldnick	Added determiner's note: [as entered on h@h]
13/03/2016	oldnick	Added determiner's note: 'If this was gathered at Mallaranny (Mayo, not Galway) it is E. mediterranea as labelled, not E. mackaiana.' - info from David Price

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oldnick wrote

'Mullaranny Co Galway' - I can't find a place so named in Co Galway - maybe a house name?? 'Mulranny[1] (Irish: an Mhala Raithní, meaning "the hill-brow of the ferns")—sometimes spelled as 'Malaranny', 'Mullaranny', 'Mullranny' or 'Mulranny'—is a seaside village on the isthmus between Clew Bay and Blacksod Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. Mulranny is the home of colourful giant fuchsias and exotic plants. This plant life is celebrated each summer during the Mulranny Mediterranean Heather Festival' - Wikipedia. Chandler collected from W Galway & W Mayo, in Jul & Aug that year

[David Price]

If this was gathered at Mallaranny (Mayo, not Galway) it is E. mediterranea as labelled, not E. mackaiana.