Herbarium specimen: Potentilla montana
| Taxon: | Rosaceae: Potentilla montana Brot. ("Mountain Cinquefoil") |
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| Other name: | Potentilla splendens |
| Locality: | Simla St Helena ?, India ?, 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.2005.27.2436 |
| notes: | this is a european species but 'Simla' or Shimla is in India; it may not be coincidence that in the early 1800s cuttings of weeping willows from the island of St Helena (by the grave of Napoleon) were sent to and planted at Shimla; white mounting strips |
Inferred details are marked.
