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Herbarium specimen: Scabiosa columbaria

Taxon:Scabiosa columbaria L. ("Small Scabious")
Filed in taxon folder:Scabiosa columbaria L. ("Small Scabious")
Collected by:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:9/1924
Locality:Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Clifton, ST57, Approach to Suspension Bridge
ex herb:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Scabiosa columbaria herbarium specimen from Clifton, VC34 West Gloucestershire in 1924 by Mr Harold Stuart Thompson.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Robust and leafy specimen, one of several even larger at he approaches to [the bridge] end of September.
Involueral [ involucre] bracts long narrow. i.e. abnormally long the stem has 5 or 6 remarkably developed "ochreal", quite abnormal.
Abnormally large and leafy, + with very long bracts_ stem Hollow + abnormal.

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Documented by hallucigenia on 8th May 2009.

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