Feedback request: Cephalanthera longifolia (12916)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #331361

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera damasonium (Mill.) Druce ("White Helleborine")
Other name:	Orchideae: Cephalanthera pallens Rich.
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch ("Narrow-leaved Helleborine")
Collection date:	6/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Caterham, TQ3253, "Whitehill" called Boxhill).
ex herb:	Mr Henry Tuke Mennell Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by mikedaps on 18^th December 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/12/2011	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Box Hill, "Whitehill" (now called Boxhill).
19/12/2011	mikedaps	Added locality: GB VC17 Caterham, "Whitehill" (now called Boxhill). TQ3253 (place)
19/12/2011	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Caterham, "Whitehill" (now called Boxhill). TQ3253 (place)
19/12/2011	mikedaps	Added locality: GB VC17 Caterham, "Whitehill" called Boxhill). TQ3253 (place)
01/04/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Caterham, "Whitehill" called Boxhill). TQ3253 (place)
01/04/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17 Caterham, "Whitehill" called Boxhill). TQ3253 (place)
01/04/2014	oldnick	Added collection date: 6/1887
02/04/2014	wonastow	Deleted determination (orig): Cephalanthera longifolia
02/04/2014	wonastow	Added determination (orig): Cephalanthera damasonium

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oldnick wrote

Since there are 4 sites in Surrey called White Hill, this sheet and others the same month can't be localised eg http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/364072/

[Roger Horton]

Mennell was a long-standing member of Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club (Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society after 1901), and president 1885-1886. WH Beeby, also a member, puts Cephalanthera longifolia (grandiflora) in the club record of plants growing in the Croydon area. Further, there is a reference in the Club Proceedings to an outing, 17th May 1879, when "The party proceeded by rail to Caterham, thence walking to White Hill, and through the War Coppice ... the party descended the hill into Godstone". This gives an idea of where the members referred to as 'White Hill', being at OS TQ3253. It is not the 'Box Hill White Hill'.

[David Price]

This plant is not Cephalanthera longifolia but C. damasonium (as named by Mennell - synonyms C. pallens and C. grandiflora).

There are two other plants (Neottia nidus-avis and Viburnum opulus) collected by Mennell in June 1887 at 'White Hill' which has been interpreted as at TQ15 near Box Hill.