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Herbarium specimen: Cephalanthera longifolia

Taxon:Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch ("Narrow-leaved Helleborine")
Filed in taxon folder:Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch ("Narrow-leaved Helleborine")
Collected by:Mr Victor Samuel Summerhayes
Collection date:23/5/1956
Locality:Great Britain, VC8 South Wiltshire, Winterbourne, SU13, Winterbourne Down, 4 miles NE of Salisbury, in beech wood on chalk with little other ground vegetation except C. damasonium, (altitude 400ft)
Institution:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:K000790102
Image:
© Kew
Cephalanthera longifolia herbarium specimen from Winterbourne, VC8 South Wiltshire in 1956 by Mr Victor Samuel Summerhayes.
collector's number:2858
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Leaves bright green; flowers just opening on some plants, white, labellum with chrome-yellow blotch.

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Documented by johned on 22nd May 2012.

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