Feedback request: Salicornia fruticosa (39706)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #366556

Taxon:	Chenopodiaceae: Suaeda fruticosa sensu H.Coste, non Forssk.
Filed in taxon folder:	Chenopodiaceae: Suaeda fruticosa sensu H.Coste, non Forssk.
Collected by:	Dr William Arnold Bromfield
Collection date:	2/9/1836
Locality:	Great Britain, VC9 Dorset, Chesil, SY67, near Weymouth
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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collector's number:	23826
notes:	(1)
Filing note:	Salicornia fruticosa

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Documented by xmhcman on 29^th December 2013.

Specimen #366557

Taxon:	Chenopodiaceae: Suaeda fruticosa sensu H.Coste, non Forssk.
Filed in taxon folder:	Chenopodiaceae: Suaeda fruticosa sensu H.Coste, non Forssk.
Collected by:	Rupert Huter Pietro Porta Giorgio Rigo
Collection date:	16/6/1877
Locality:	Italy, Calabria, River Crati, Calabria III orient in pratis subhumid ad flumen Cratti pr[ope] Buffolaria [= Calabria III east, in the subhumid fields of River Cratti [? Crati] near Buffolaria]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
collector's number:	23826
notes:	(2) & (3) ex itinere italico III [= from Italian journey number III]
Filing note:	Salicornia fruticosa

Documented by xmhcman on 29^th December 2013.

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date	user	change
29/12/2013	xmhcman	Added collector: Pietro Porta
29/12/2013	xmhcman	Added collector: Giorgio Rigo

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xmhcman wrote

Anyone with detailed knowledge of eastern Calabria please?! Harvard University Herbarium has a 'Huter, Rupert, Porta, Pietro & Rigo, Gregorio', who collected in Italy amongst other places. I have put collector as 'R Huter' so as not to confuse with the 'B Huter' already in the database.

[Chris Liffen]

for interest

[Roger Horton]

Thanks! I now find that there was a trio of botanists collecting in Italy and elsewhere: Rupert Huter (1834-1919), Pietro Porta (1832-1923), Giorgio Rigo (1841-1922). The first two were priests, the last a pharmacist. They lived in a part of what is now northern Italy, but originally part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which to this day is bilingual. A further complication is that many of their labels are in Latin.