Feedback request: Helleborus foetidus (3710)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #316546

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Helleborus foetidus L. ("Stinking Hellebore")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Helleborus foetidus L. ("Stinking Hellebore")
Locality:	Switzerland, Basel-Landschaft, Basel, [?? see message board!]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume Friedrich Wilhelm Noe
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by oldnick on 10^th March 2011.

Specimen #316547

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Helleborus foetidus L. ("Stinking Hellebore")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Helleborus foetidus L. ("Stinking Hellebore")
Collected by:	Pietro Porta
Locality:	Italy, Lombardia, Lombardia [?Italy] ad ... 400 ... [??]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by oldnick on 10^th March 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
14/01/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: , Lombardia [?Italy] ad ... 400 ... [??]
14/01/2012	oldnick	Added locality: IT LO, Lombardia [?Italy] ad ... 400 ... [??]
14/01/2012	oldnick	Deleted collector: (Porta ?)
14/01/2012	oldnick	Added collector: Porta
28/07/2016	chrisu	Deleted collector: Porta
28/07/2016	chrisu	Added collector: Pietro Porta

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

I couldn't decipher all of the labels, nor decide whether they were all written by Noe, nor guess who or what 'Porta' is; also I couldn't open the 'country' box for Italy.

[mossysal]

Somewhere on the message board it says that the foreign sheets were scanned in error at the moment. I have edited in what I can re Switzerland and Italy.

[oldnick]

Thanks - I like those foreign sheets though - and some of them are together with a British specimen, or help elucidate what looks like a British specimen but isn't

[David Price]

P. Porta was a Tyrolean (?) botanist and, with G. Rigo, an associate of Fr Rupert Huter. See http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?botanistid=79807

[Chris Liffen]

1832 - 1923
According to
Flora Europaea: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae)
 By Thomas Gaskell Tutin, V. H. Heywood, which differs to dates in link above

[David Price]

Link gave Huter's dates but Porta's name only.

[Chris Liffen]

aha
seemingly another long lived botanist