Feedback request: Cephalanthera longifolia (K000790104)

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Specimen #336684

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch ("Narrow-leaved Helleborine")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch ("Narrow-leaved Helleborine")
Collection date:	8/6/1920
Locality:	Great Britain, VC46 Cardiganshire, Devil's Bridge, SN77
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000790104
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by johned on 17^th May 2012.

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a.o.chater wrote

C. longifolia has never been recorded from this area, the specimen looks very peculiar (etiolated and with very few flowers), and there is no collector. Could it be of garden origin? I think it would be unwise to accept it as it is. Arthur Chater, Recorder for VC 46.