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Herbarium specimen: Centaurium erythraea

Taxon:Gentianaceae: Centaurium erythraea Rafn ("Common Centaury")
Filed in taxon folder:Gentianaceae: Centaurium littorale (Turner ex Sm.) Gilmour ("Seaside Centaury")
Collected by:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:10/10/1934
Locality:Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Berrow, ST25, Berrow sand hills, in a deep hollow from which the top spit [ie spade-depth??] had been cleared.
ex herb:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Centaurium erythraea herbarium specimen from Berrow, VC6 North Somerset in 1934 by Mr Harold Stuart Thompson.
fruits/flowers:seeds/fruits
notes:very sparingly. Some of the plants were much longer & very branched.
Erythraea Centaurium [C erythraea] autumnal form, with leaves more or less strap-shaped as in littoralis. See Journ Bot 1925, 345 et seq.
Filing note:Centaurium minus

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 taxonlocalitycollectorsdateinstitution
+Centaurium erythraeaGB, VC4 North Devon, Braunton BurrowsWilliam Booth Waterfall9/1878BIRM
+Centaurium erythraeaGB, VC38 Warwickshire, Yarningale CommonHarold Stuart Thompson5/8/1907BIRM

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