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Index of Botanical Specimens

ClassificationOxalidaceae: Oxalis
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)00100458
Type StatusHolotype
CollectorC. Wright
CountryUnited States of America
StateTexas
GeographyNorth America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Texas: Jeff Davis County
LocalityN. Mex. [Valley of the Limpia at its head]
Date Collected1851-06-13
Substrate[Stony soil]
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/308f6d1c-3193-4888-84f2-a457b7558ef3
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode00100458
HerbariumGH
FamilyOxalidaceae
Type Status Holotype
Holotype of Oxalis wrightii A. Gray
Taxon Reference(for Oxalis wrightii A. Gray) Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 1852. 3(5): 27.
FamilyOxalidaceae
Determination Oxalis corniculata subsp. albicans (A. Gray) Lourteig
Determined byA. Lourteig
Date Determined1975
Determination Remarks [current name]
FamilyOxalidaceae
Determination Oxalis albicans subsp. albicans
Determined byG. Eiten
Date Determined1955
FamilyOxalidaceae
Determination Oxalis wrightii A. Gray
Determined byK. M. Wiegand
Date Determined1925-02-**
FamilyOxalidaceae
Determination Oxalis wrightii A. Gray
Determined byW. Trelease
Annotation TextSyn. Fl. N. Amer. (det. W.T.)
Sexnot determined
PhenologyFlowerAndFruit
Preparation TypeSheet
Preparation MethodPressed
Item Remarks[Mounted with non-type specimens of C. Wright 907, 1852, 254020 and G. Thurber 1079, 254021]
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Remarks[Although Gray put the number 907 on this 1851 label it is not number 907, which he assigned to the 1852 specimen. In the protologue he doesn't asign a number to the 1851 collection, which he did when there wasn't enough material for distribution, in other words this specimen is a unicate. Date, Locality and substrate from field notes for Wright field #481, 1st coll.]

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