Herbarium specimen: Orobanche rapum-genistae
| Taxon: | Orobanchaceae: Orobanche rapum-genistae Thuill. ("Greater Broomrape") |
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| Other name: | Orobanchaceae: Orobanche major L. |
| Collected by: | M.W Taylor (x) |
| Collection date: | 6/1841 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC85 Fifeshire, Dunfermline, NT08 |
| 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.2005.27.5402 |
| notes: | white mounting strips; 'Orobanche major' is also synonymous with Orobanche elatior, but in British 19th century floras that species is distinguished from O. major, suggesting that the species in question is O. rapum-genistae; the are no records of it north of Edinburgh in the 'New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora' |
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