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Herbarium specimen: Orobanche rapum-genistae

Taxon:Orobanchaceae: Orobanche rapum-genistae Thuill. ("Greater Broomrape")
Other name:Orobanchaceae: Orobanche major L.
Locality:'near 1st tower', see note
donated by:Prof John Hutton Balfour (Donation to Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society, apparently arranged by William Carmichael MacIntosh ) 1880
Institution:Perth Museum and Art Gallery (PTH)
Accession number:PTH.2005.27.5403
notes:label partly trimmed off, location could end in 'haven'; white
mounting strips ; 'Orobanche major' is also synonymous with
Orobanche elatior, but in British 19th century floras that
species is distinguished from O. major, suggesting that the
species in question is O. rapum-genistae

Inferred details are marked.

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