Feedback request: Conopodium denudatum (HU5462)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #236626

Taxon:	Apiaceae: Conopodium majus (Gouan) Loret ("Pignut")
Other name:	Umbelliferae: Conopodium denudatum W.D.J.Koch
Filed in taxon folder:	Apiaceae: Conopodium majus (Gouan) Loret ("Pignut")
Collection date:	22/5/1890
Locality:	Great Britain, VC40 Shropshire, Sharpstones, SO59
Institution:	Shrewsbury School (SHYB)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	no collector named

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by keith barnett on 16^th September 2007.

Checked by tom humphrey

Edit history

date	user	change
16/09/2007	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Conopodium denudatum
16/09/2007	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Conopodium denudatum
16/09/2007	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Conopodium majus
04/11/2012	oldnick	Deleted blank locality

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keith barnett wrote

I think this is what is now called Conopododium majus

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for posting about this. I've updated the specimen, but your report also highlighted a wider problem where some sheets where incorrectly being listed under a name that was already marked as obsolete. This affected 64 sheets, which I've now updated.

In general I've tried to list plants according to their name in Kent (List of Vascular Plants of the British Isles) (+later revisions). For the Shrewsbury school specimens this required a fair bit of work, as they were filed according to the London Catalogue (9th Ed. published 1895), so often not remotely in accordance with currently accepted nomenclature.

To make the conversion I scanned a copy of the LC adding all the names to the system's taxon dictionary, then tried to match the old names with the current Kent equivalent. This means that when things are working properly plants filed according to the obsolete scheme should be listed under a current name with the old name also listed (as a non-preferred name). I've no idea how some sheets, such as this one slipped through.

There will also be some cases where I've not yet added a match for the old name, so if you spot obsolete names then let me know as this will also help in the future when other collections are uploaded and need to be matched to current names.

regards,

Tom.