Feedback request: Orchis morio (27688)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #292401

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Orchis morio L. ("Green-winged Orchid") named by John Gregory Hawkes
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Orchis morio L. ("Green-winged Orchid")
Collected by:	Dr James B Phipps
Collection date:	12/6/1955
Locality:	Great Britain, VC38 Warwickshire, Gaydon, SP3652, Old pasture near Kineton
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
collector's number:	2039
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by mikedaps on 18^th March 2010.

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date	user	change
19/03/2010	mikedaps	Added determiner: Prof John Gregory Hawkes (University of Birmingham)
24/11/2010	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Gaydon, "Old pasture near Kineton 3652" SP3652 (place)
24/11/2010	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC38 Gaydon, Old pasture near Kineton 3652 SP3652 (place)
24/11/2010	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb (University Of Birmingham)
12/05/2012	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Gaydon, Old pasture near Kineton 3652 SP3652 (place)
12/05/2012	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC38 Gaydon, Old pasture near Kineton SP3652 (col)
12/05/2012	chrisu	Added attribute collector's number: 2039
12/05/2012	chrisu	Deleted tag collectors number: 2039

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mikedaps wrote

any idea what the initials JWAA E, JGAA E or above some of the JBP specimens like this one signifies, if anything? A nk determiner?

[David Price]

It looks as if Phipps's determination was confirmed by "JGH" - J G Hawkes, Professor of Taxonomic Botany at Birmingham University: see http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-jack-hawkes-397143.html

[Mike d'Apice]

Yep that would fit, I'd read his H as AA, the only letters I was convinced were right! Amended, Thanks.

Tom: If so many of the other JBP specimens have had his determinations confirmed by Hawkes: Is it worth retrospectively amending them all?