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oldnick



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:12 pm    Post subject: Feedback request: Gymnocarpium dryopteris (160709_722) Reply with quote

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Specimen #300251

Taxon:Woodsiaceae: Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman ("Oak Fern")
Filed in taxon folder:Woodsiaceae: Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman ("Oak Fern")
Collected by:Philip Brookes Mason
Locality:Great Britain, VC39 Staffordshire, Newborough, SK12, Byrkley Lodge
ex herb:Philip Brookes Mason
Institution:Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:30-07-25994
Image:Gymnocarpium dryopteris herbarium specimen from Newborough, VC39 Staffordshire by Philip Brookes Mason.

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Documented by oldnick on 1st June 2010.

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oldnick wrote
do the 2 labels refer to different specimens? note different species names.


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mossysal



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nephrodium seems to have been for ferns what Hypnum was for mosses! (There are 1686 entries on IPNI!) B & H 1896 mentions it as an ?obsolete name for a variety of ferns, (many but not all of them Polystichums).

I suspect therefore that N. neopterum was an old name for Oak Fern?
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