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Index of Botanical Specimens

ClassificationByttneriaceae: Hermannia
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)00255051
Type StatusSyntype
Collector
CountryUnited States of America
StateMassachusetts
GeographyNorth America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Massachusetts: Middlesex County: Cambridge
LocalityHort. Cantab. [cultivated at the Harvard Botanic Garden]
Date Collected1849
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/bd0c2574-35ad-42f1-b7ca-c3d3a88c6fd8
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode00255051
HerbariumGH
FamilyByttneriaceae
Determination Hermannia texana A. Gray
Determined byA. Gray
Determination Remarks[A. Gray (scripsit)] [is label name]
Annotation TextGen. Ill. t. 135
FamilyByttneriaceae
Determination Hermannia texana A. Gray
Determined byL. Barnett
Annotation TextPossible type of Hermannia texana Gray. Sketches of this specimen accompanied publication of new species in Gen. Pl. (1849).
FamilyByttneriaceae
Determination Hermannia texana A. Gray
Determined byJ. G. Saunders (SI)
Date Determined2006
Annotation TextCultivated material mentioned in type description (not yet in flower); later cited in Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 165. 1850
FamilyByttneriaceae
Type Status Syntype
Syntype of Hermannia texana A. Gray
Verified byW. T. Kittredge
Date Determined2010
Determination RemarksHort. Cantab. 1849. Gen. Fl. Amer. Bor. Ill. 2: 87-88, pl. 135. 1849. Isaac Sprague sketches from “the Rio Colorado in Texas, north of Lat. 31, by Mr. Lindheimer; from whose indigenous specimens it is here figured”
Taxon Reference(for Hermannia texana A. Gray) Gen. Fl. Amer. Bor. Ill. 1849. 2: 87.
Sexnot determined
PhenologyFlowerAndFruit
Preparation TypeSheet
Preparation MethodPressed
Item Remarks[Sprague's sketches mounted on sheet in packet, and mounted with Lindheimer field #414, 62847]
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Remarkse sem. Tex. [seeds from Texas]

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