Feedback request: Potentilla crantzii (17573)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #339715

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Potentilla crantzii (Crantz) Beck ex Fritsch ("Alpine Cinquefoil")
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Potentilla crantzii (Crantz) Beck ex Fritsch ("Alpine Cinquefoil")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Collection date:	9/7/1868
Locality:
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	21390

Partially documented by oldnick on 25^th June 2012

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oldnick wrote

I couldn't read site name; no other Townsend specimens currently from near this date

[Chris Liffen]

speculative : Alperton Hall (Middx)

[oldnick]

P alpestris and salisburgensis are old synonyms of P crantzii.....
the site name seems to read something like 'near Celdmon'. Grows on hills & mountains from N Wales & Yorkshire northward

[oldnick]

P alpestris and salisburgensis are old synonyms of P crantzii.....
the site name seems to read something like 'near Celdmon'. Grows on hills & mountains from N Wales & Yorkshire northward

[Roger Horton]

No new images to document at the moment, so after much G∞gling around this sheet, I realise Hall is just a truncation of the authority for Potentilla alpestris — Haller f.