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Herbarium specimen: Habenaria bifolia

Taxon:Habenaria bifolia ("Lesser Butterfly-orchid")
Other name:Orchideae: Habenaria bifolia R.Br.
Filed in taxon folder:Habenaria bifolia ("Lesser Butterfly-orchid")
Collected by:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:29/6/1919
Locality:Great Britain, VC2 East Cornwall, Tokenbury, SX2870, "Among bracken on Tokenbury Estate "
communicated:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Habenaria bifolia herbarium specimen from Tokenbury, VC2 East Cornwall in 1919 by Mr Harold Stuart Thompson.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:1. "Briggs says in "Fl. of Plymouth" of H Chlorantha "unlike H. Bifolia, this is a sylvestral rather than ericatial species" H. S. Thompson.
2. Pencil note by third specimen: "This specimen H. virescens = Plantanthera chlorantha Reich.- Leaves flowers rather larger for bifolia H.S.T. See specimens from near Tokenbury"

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+Platanthera chloranthaHarold Stuart ThompsonBIRM

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