Feedback request: Ophrys sphegodes (27576)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #297317

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Ophrys sphegodes Mill. ("Early Spider-orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Ophrys sphegodes Mill. ("Early Spider-orchid")
Collected by:	H Darton
Collection date:	5/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, Eastbourne, TQ60
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	No 1360 Lon Cat Ed VIII

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Documented by hallucigenia on 5^th May 2010.

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hallucigenia wrote

New collector?

[Chris Liffen]

Hugh Darton is listed in the 'Index of Collectors in the Welsh National Herbarium by S G Harrison (NMW), and also referenced in a pdf on MEMBERS OF THE MOSS EXCHANGE CLUB (1896-1923) [ from google], dates 1868 - 1941.
Chris

[hallucigenia]

Thanks I tend to think if they are not on the data base they don't exist.
Chris