Feedback request: Cuscuta epithymum (K000790171)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #342722

Taxon:	Cuscutaceae: Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. ("Dodder")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cuscutaceae: Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L. ("Dodder")
Collection date:	24/8/1893 ? IX57
Locality:	Ireland, VCH9 Co. Clare, Aran, L90
communicated:	Alexander Goodman More
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000790171
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	on Lotus etc

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 16^th August 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
17/08/2012	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH9 Aran
17/08/2012	oldnick	Added provenance: comm Alexander Goodman More
17/08/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: , Engel? [illegible]
17/08/2012	oldnick	Deleted collection date: 9/1857 ? IX57
17/08/2012	oldnick	Added collection date: 24/8/1893 ? IX57
17/08/2012	oldnick	Deleted note: grandiflora
17/08/2012	oldnick	Added note: on Lotus etc
17/08/2012	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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oldnick wrote

illegible, and unclear which specimen is referred to; label at top left also has an 'x'

[David Price]

"1X57" is a partly obliterated 1857.

Doesn't this label (bottom right) marked "X" cross-reference to CCB's label, "near Cambridge" (top left).

The letters "Engel--" read 'Engelmann', the authority for the trinomial Cuscuta epithymum grandiflora. It may be no more than a coincidence that in 1857 the German-American botanist George Engelmann was in England visiting J D Hooker.

[David Price]

"1X57" is a partly obliterated 1857.

Doesn't this label (bottom right) marked "X" cross-reference to CCB's label, "near Cambridge" (top left).

The letters "Engel--" read 'Engelmann', the authority for the trinomial Cuscuta epithymum grandiflora. It may be no more than a coincidence that in 1857 the German-American botanist George Engelmann was in England visiting J D Hooker.

[oldnick]

Thanks - and I see therefore the bar-code must refer to the Island of Aran specimen