Feedback request: Orchis mascula (2974)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #230392

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Orchis mascula (L.) L. ("Early-purple Orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Orchis mascula (L.) L. ("Early-purple Orchid")
Collected by:	William Christy
Locality:	Great Britain, Kent
ex herb:	Dr John Bland Wood Mr Roberts Leyland
Institution:	Manchester Museum (MANCH)
Accession number:	K6018
Image:
notes:	no collection date William Christy ?junior. "He died a few weeks ago"

Documented by keith barnett on 7^th January 2007.

Edit history

date	user	change
02/01/2011	oldnick	Deleted note: sheet marked P2974 and 642.end and 6018 no collection date
02/01/2011	oldnick	Added notes
02/01/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: [illegible]
02/01/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC15,VC16
02/01/2011	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb (Manchester Museum)
02/01/2011	oldnick	Added collector: William Christy
02/01/2011	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb (Manchester Museum)
02/01/2011	tom humphrey	Deleted note: 'Orchis fusca'. sheet marked P2974 and 642.end and 6018 no collection date
02/01/2011	tom humphrey	Added note: no collection date William Christy ?junior. "He died a few weeks ago"
02/01/2011	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb (Manchester Museum)
02/01/2011	tom humphrey	Replaced number:
02/01/2011	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb R Leyland
02/01/2011	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mr Roberts Leyland

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Collector - have I read 'William Christy' correctly? Label states 'he died a few weeks ago' - if this was 1839, Leyland was collecting then (though the handwriting does not look quite of that era).

[Tom Humphrey]

I agree with you. I'm not sure if the collector reads 'William Christy junior' and if so whether this is the 1807-1839 Christy.

R Leyland is Roberts Leyland (1784-1847) so this is an early specimen.

[David Price]

Could this be Orchis purpurea for which O. fusca was a synonym? Upper perianth segments look hooded rather than 'DeLorean gull-wing' as in O. mascula, but it's hard to tell from this specimen. Right county, though.