Herbarium specimen: Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana
| Taxon: | Caryophyllaceae: Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana Meusel & K. Werner |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Caryophyllaceae: Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana Meusel & K. Werner |
| Collected by: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Collection date: | 6/6/1916 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Radstock, ST65, growing with L.alba [= longifolia] in field of "seeds" above Radstock, North Somerset. |
| ex herb: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | 2 specimens on right from typed label ---------------------- Lychnis dioica L., with pale pink flowers, turning darker and bluer on drying: ? hybrid. Though growing with L. alba in a field of 'seeds' near Radstock, N. Somerset, v.c.6, June 1916, Mr. Marshall says: "I do not see clear evidence of the alba parent, and fancy that it is a colour form of L.diurna; but i am not sure about it: it is full young."--H.S.Thompson. "Perhaps so critical a point is best settled from fresh specimens."--J.W.W. in litt. ------------------ |
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Associated records
Other specimen entries from this sheet.| taxon | locality | collectors | date | institution | ||
| + | Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana | GB, VC5 South Somerset, Porlock | Harold Stuart Thompson | 7/1922 | BIRM | |
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Documented by lowfatspread on 18th May 2008.
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