Robert Wight

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Details for the specimen with barcode E00157789

Flemingia nilgheriensis (Baker) T. Cooke

Family: Leguminosae

Original name: Flemingia procumbens Wight

Place of publication: Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 3(3): 9, t. 987, 1845

Type status: isotype

RBGE Barcode No.(s): E00157789

Collecting locality: Neilgherries

Annotations by others: Apparently intermediate between F. procumbens & F. prostrata

Collector: [Wight]

RBGE collection name: Trinity College, Glasgow

Notes: Sent to Botanical Society of Edinburgh by Wight 1841. F. procumbens Wight illegit homonym, non Roxb., this also type of F. vestita var. nilgheriensis Baker, FBI 2: 230, 1876