Feedback request: Honckenya peploides (WISE.1.116)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #250468

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. ("Sea Sandwort") named by Leonard John Margetts 14/1/1978
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Honckenya peploides (L.) Ehrh. ("Sea Sandwort")
Collected by:	William Wise
Collection date:	9/6/1916
Locality:	Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Praa Sands, SW52
Institution:	Launceston Museum (LAUS)
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Documented by keith barnett on 3^rd February 2008.

Checked by qgroom

Edit history

date	user	change
25/03/2008	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB VC1 Praa Sands
25/03/2008	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC1 Praa Sands SW52 (col)
02/09/2013	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC1 Praa Sands SW52 (col)
02/09/2013	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC1 Praa Sands

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keith barnett wrote

as mentioned before, Par, Pra and Praa are semingly different spellings for the same place. Are we sure that Pra is the 'correct' version?

[Tom Humphrey]

Ordnance survey spells it as 'Praa Sands' but suggestions for the 'correct' version from someone with local knowledge would be very welcome.

In more general terms I've not really resolved how to cope with placename spelling variants - I can easily retrospectively update names where there are duplicate entries or variants of the same name, but I don't currently actively merge names as they are entered (as happens to some extent with collector names, where this can be done with greater confidence).