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Aesculus sylvatica Bartram, Travels Through North and South Carolina 476. 1791.  [Hippocastanaceae]
[Neotype]

United States, South Carolina
South Carolina: Union Co; Bluffs of Broad River just south of Neal Shoals.  Understory shrub in a mixed hardwood stand.  Shrub 10 ft. tall; fls. greenish yellow.

James W. Hardin, No. 113                   22 April, 1953

Amorpha georgiana Wilbur, Rhodora 56: 261-265.  1954.   [Fabaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Georgia
Telfair County: 3 miles northwest of Lumber City on U.S. 23.  Sandy ridge sloping off into moist dense thicket.  Dry savannah and river bank.  Common shrub c. 3 dm. Tall in sandy savannah.  Forming clumps.  Petal reddish purple.

R.L. Wilbur #3158                               9 May 1953 

Amorpha georgiana Wilbur, Rhodora 56: 261-265.  1954.  [Fabaceae]
[Paratype]
United States, Georgia
Telfair Co.: Common in sandy wire-grass savannah about 3 miles northwest of Lumber City.  Shrub 2-3 dm. high.

R.L. Wilbur No. 3448                          24 May 1953

Arachis glandulifera Stalker, Am. J. of Botany 78: 633-634.  1991. [Fabaceae]
[Holotype, Isotype]
United States, North Carolina
Moore Co.: Sandhills Research Station, field D2, plot number 90WSN40.  Grown from seed originally collected by W.C. Gregory, A. Krapovickas, C.E. Simpson, and A. Schinini in 1977 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, lat: 16 deg 29 min, long: 62 deg 5 min.  Accession# 30091.  Plant 5.

H.T. Stalker 90-40                                12 Sep 1990

Arachis glandulifera Stalker, Am. J. of Botany 78: 633-634.  1991. [Fabaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, North Carolina
Moore Co.: Sandhills Research Station, field D2, plot number 90WSN40.  Grown from seed originally collected by W.C. Gregory, A. Krapovickas, C.E. Simpson, and A. Schinini in 1977 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, lat: 16 deg 29 min, long: 62 deg 5 min.  Accession# 30091.  Plant 1.

H.T. Stalker 90-40                                12 Sep 1990

Asplenium curtissii Underw., Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33(3): 194. 1906. [Aspleniaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Florida
Florida: Limestone rocks in a forest at the head of Lake Tsala Apopka.

A.H. Curtiss 3728                                April

Convolvulus pickeringii Torr. ex M.A. Curtis, Bost. J. Nat. Hist. 1: 137.  1837.  [Convolvulaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, North Carolina

M.A. Curtis s.n., N.C.

Echites difformis Walter, Fl. Caroliniana: 98.  1788. [Apocynaceae]
[Photograph of holotype (BM)]

Walter 215

Eragrostis tephrosanthos J.A. Schultes, Mantissa 2: 316.  1824.  [Poaceae]
[Photograph of Holotype at Botanische Staatssammlung (M)]

Verified by: Stephen D. Koch           Date: December 1968

Erythronium umbilicatum ssp. monostolum C.R. Parks & Hardin, Brittonia 15(3): 252. 1963.  [Liliaceae]
[Holotype, Isotype]
United States, North Carolina
County: Swain.  Rich woods near Indian Gap.  Fls. yellow; plants with 1 stolon.

James W. Hardin, No. 2360                 6 May 1961

Erythronium umbilicatum ssp. umbilicatum C.R. Parks & Hardin, Brittonia 15(3): 252. 1963.  [Liliaceae]
[Holotype, Isotype]
United States, North Carolina
County: Iredell.  Along slope above stream, 9mi. w. of Statesville, off Interstate Hwy. 40.  Fls. yellow, capsule indented at apex and resting on ground; stolons lacking.

James W. Hardin, No. 2368                 May 13, 1961

Erythroxylum hardinii E. Machado, Anales Cientificos (Universidad Agraria) 7(1/2): 14. 1969. [Erythroxylaceae]
[Isotype]
Peru, Departamento de San Martin
Colectado en la quebrada cerca de Crisnejas y el pueblo de Uchiza en el Departamento de San Martin.  Aparentemente en el lugar y sitios aledanos se cultivo hace mucho tiempo.

Edgardo Machado, No. 1256               Febrero 15, 1965

Gonolobus tenuisepalus Krings, Sida 20: 105.  2002.  [Apocynaceae]

[Isotype; flowers]

Puntarenas: San Vito de Java, Coto Brus.  Estacion Biologica Las Cruces.

8deg 47min 8.9sec N, 82deg 57min 29.3sec                     1200m

30m downhill from Trail Marker Ft59

Vine growing to 10m.  Stems exuding milky latex when cut.  Corolla purple, 5-lobed, the adaxial lobe surfaces coarsely villosulous-strigillose; sepals 5, curved, narrow, vertical, rising above the reflexed petals.  Flowers with mildly unpleasant/fetid odor.

Alexander Krings 274                        11 March 1997

Hexastylis rhombiformis Gaddy, Brittonia 38: 82-85.  1986.  [Aristolochiaceae]
[Photograph of holotype, in lieu of isotype]
United States, North Carolina
County: Transylvania.  Low white pine-hemlock-Rhododendron-Kalmia bluff on sandy soil on the North Fork of the French Broad River, ca 6 mi NNW of Rosman.

L.L. Gaddy 250                                   22 April 1982

Ilex x 'Hefcup'  US Patent 8537  [Aquifoliaceae]

[Image]

Branches from 4th & 5th generation container grown plants grown at Hefner Nursery, Conover, NC.  Collected by Randy Hefner as fresh samples to replace dried samples of Fantz 5244 (paratype).

Paul R. Fantz 5247                             1 Oct 1991

Illicium verum Hook f., Botanical Magazine 114: t. 7005. 1888. [Magnoliaceae]
[Photograph of holotype (K), label detail]
China
Type specimen of Bot. Mag. t. 7005
Kew Gardens, Nov. 15. 1887
Recd from Hong Kong Botanic Garden […]
True Star Anise from country north of Pakhoi, China

Liatris turgida Gaiser, Rhodora 48: 261.  1946.  [Asteraceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Virginia
Vicinity of Afton, Nelson Co., in the Blue Ridge Mountains;Altitude 600 meters

No. 24  E.S. Steele, Collector              Aug. 31, 1912

Liatris turgida Gaiser, Rhodora 48: 261.  1946.  [Asteraceae]
[Topotype]
United States, Virginia
Vicinity of Afton, Nelson Co., in the Blue Ridge Mountains

No. 25  E.S. Steele, Collector              Aug. 31, 1912

Ludwigia ravenii Peng, Syst. Bot. 9: 129.  1984.  [Onagraceae]
[Isotype]
United States, South Carolina
Berkeley County: 0.1-0.2 mi SW of jct. of Co. 16 & Co. 6, on co. 16 W of Moncks Corner.  Plants scattered in roadside sedgy, sandy ditch; on loam which is densely covered by Sphagnum subsecundatum; associated with plants of Cyperus, Xyris, Eriocaulon, Paspalum, Panicum, Hypericum, Polygonum, Rhexia, Liatris, Eupatorium, Ludwigia linearis Walt., Ludwigia hirtella Raf.

Ching-I Peng    4402                            9 Sept. 1982

Nicotiana amplexicaulis Burbidge, Austral. Journ. Bot. 8: 359.  1960.
[Isotype]
Australia
Cameroon Ra, 63 miles S. of Rolleston, Q.
Base of sandstone cliffs, in lee of overhanging rocks.
Annual herb, flowers white. 

N.T. Burbidge 5562                             13. IX. 1956

Oenothera wigginsii Klein, Aliso 5(2): 180. 1962.  [Onagraceae]
[Isotype]
Mexico, Baja California
Sand hills along the edge of the Bahia de San Quintin approximately 2 miles southeast of the San Quintin Cannery; locally abundant; corollas white, fading pink.  Elev. ca. 100 ft. 

William M. Klein and D.P. Gregory 1202      8 March 1960

 [Chromosome number annotation: This collection, 2n=7II, determined by William M. Klein 1961]

Pinus greggii Engelm., Sida 18 (4): 1092.  1999.  [Pinaceae]
[Paratype]
Mexico, Queretaro
Mexico: Queretaro, Mpio. Landa de Matamoros, El Madroño,
21° 16’ N, 99° 10’W, 1690 m elevation.

Jeffrey K. Donahue & Javier Lopez-Upton B 23                  19 May 1993

Pinus tecunumanii Eguiluz & Perry, Ciencia Forestal 8 (41): 3-22.  1983. [Pinaceae]
[Isotype]
Guatemala, Baja Verapaz
Collected at finca INAFOR, 60 m (NE) down from the tower of GUATEL, Municipality of San Jerónimo, Department of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, C.A.; altitude 1780 m above sea level, latitude N 15° 04’ and longitude W 90° 15’.

Collected by Teobaldo Eguiluz, No. 2; August 15, 1979

Polygonum heterosepalum Peck & Ownbey, Madroño 10 (8): 250-251.  1950.  [Polygonaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Oregon
Malheur Co.: Disturbed soil, 12 miles north of Jordan Valley.  Flowers greenish.

Marion Ownbey & Gerald B. Ownbey 2774  June 13, 1946

Prunus persica (L.) Batsch var. nucipersica Dippel 'white Glory'  [Rosaceae]

[Clonotype]

Tree 12 ft tall, ca 12-14 ft [sic] wide; branches weeping, young twigs green; flowers pure white, borne before the leaves, single with ca 5% bearing 1-3 petaloid stamens; west side North Carolina State University Arboretum.

Paul R. Fantz 4327                            26 Mar 1984

Prunus persica (L.) Batsch var. nucipersica Dippel 'white Glory'  [Rosaceae]

[Paraclonotype]

Tree 12 ft tall, ca 12-14 ft [sic] wide; branches weeping; leaves drooping, +/- conduplicate; fruits flesh-colored tinged green; west side North Carolina State University Arboretum.

Paul R. Fantz 4326                            16 Aug 1983

Ranunculus subcordatus E.O. Beal, Brittonia 23 (3): 266-268.  1971.  [Ranunculaceae]
[Topotypes: 3 sheets all Beal 7323; see #1,  #2,  #3]
United States, North Carolina
Elkton Swamp at NC 211 between Elkton and Clarkton.  Inundated low ground and marshy areas along stream.  Habitat: stream.

Ernest O. Beal No. 7323                      June 18, 1975.

Rhododendron 'Adelaide Pope'  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub; flowers single, pinkish-red, upper petal maculate.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz  4343                           7 May  1987

Rhododendron 'Autumn Sun,' HortScience 17(5): 837-838.  1982.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub, semideciduous.  Flowers rich bronze red, hose-in-hose.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  N Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4351                            7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Autumn Sun,' HortScience 17(5): 837-838.  1982.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub, flowers red.  Greenhouse - container plant of Dr. Bonaminio grown as #34-3, for  Carla Azalea Breeding selection release.

Paul R. Fantz 4321                            24 Feb 1982

Rhododendron 'Carror' [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub; flowers richly rose pink, semi-double.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program N Carolina State Univ.  Vouchered from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4347                            7 May 1987

Rhododendron catawbiense Michx. 'Carolina Spring,' HortScience 27(4): 378-379.  1992.  [Ericaceae]

[Isotype]

Erect evergreen shrub.  Leaves variegated with pale yellow to yellow creme, irregular as blotches marginal, or midrib to margin.  Flowers in truss lavender, lighter toward throat, dorsal petal inconspicuously greenish-yellow spotted.  Variegated sport off 'Boursault' grown at Thomasson Nursery, Hamptonville, NC.

Paul R. Fantz 5120                           12 April 1991

Rhododendron 'Cochrans Lavender,' HortScience 17(5): 837-838.  1982.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype, Cotype]

Shrub.  Flowers pale lavender pink, single.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4349                           7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Emily'  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub; flowers deep rose red.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4346                           7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Greenthumb Peppermint,' HortScience 25(2): 236-237.  1990.  [Ericaceae]

[Isotype]

Erect evergreen shrub ca 2.5', heavily pruned.  Flowers pink with white margins with red maculate upper lip, semidouble, hose-in-hose, variable in pink/white patterns.  Sport from purplish azalea from yard of B.J. Maness propagated & grown at Evergreen Nurs. in Seagrove, NC.  Stock type for cultivar propagules.

Paul R. Fantz 4340                           25 Mar 1988

Rhododendron 'Greenthumb Peppermint,' HortScience 25(2): 236-237.  1990.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Erect evergreen shrub; branches ascending & spreading.  Flowers variegated pink & white plus rare sports with dark maroon pink or white (Fig. 2, cover).  Voucher from type plant at Greenthumb Nurs. of Seagrove, NC.  Plant for colored cover photo.

Paul R. Fantz 4391                           11 May 1988

Rhododendron 'Jan Cochran,' HortScience 24(4): 718.  1989.  [Ericaceae]

[Holotype, Isotype]

Compact shrub ca 1' tall; branches ascending; flowers single, rosy-pink (Munsell 5RP 5-6/10).  Carla Azalea Breeding Selection - field #25-5.  North Carolina State University.

Paul R. Fantz 4340                           17 April 1987

Rhododendron 'Jane Spalding'  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub; flowers deep rose pink, single or semidouble.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4345                          7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Pink Camellia,'  HortScience 17(5): 837-838.  1982.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub.  Flowers light purplish-pink, double.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State University.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4350                         7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Pink Camellia,'  HortScience 17(5): 837-838.  1982.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub.  Flowers double, 2-3 per truss, light lavender pink.  Greenhouse, container plant of Dr. Bonaminio labelled as #26-8, for Carla Azalea Program release. 

Paul R. Fantz 4319                         24 Feb 1982

Rhododendron 'Pink Cloud'  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub; flowers single, light pink.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz  4344                         7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Rachel,' HortScience 24(4): 717.  1989.  [Ericaceae]

[Holotype]

Compact shrub with branches ascending.  Flowers single to semidouble (ca 40-50%) with 1-2 petaloid stamens, wine red (Munsell 2.5R 4/10) with blotches inconspicuous.  Ca 1' tall.  Carla Azalea Breeding Selection - field #41-23 N Carolina State University.

Paul R. Fantz 4341                           17 April 1987

Rhododendron 'Rachel,' HortScience 24(4): 717.  1989.  [Ericaceae]

[Isotype]

Compact shrub ca 1' tall with ascending branches.  Flowers single to semidouble (ca 40-50%) with 1-2 petaloid stamens, wine red (Munsell 2.5R 4/10) with blotches inconspicuous.  Carla Azalea Breeding Selection - field #41-23 N Carolina State University.

Paul R. Fantz 4341                           17 April 1987

Rhododendron 'Sunglow'  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype]

Shrub; flowers single, deep rose red.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program North Carolina State Univ.  vouchers from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz 4342                            7 May 1987

Rhododendron 'Wolfpack Red,' HortScience 17(5): 837-838.  1982.  [Ericaceae]

[Cotype, Cotype]

Shrub; flowers strongly deep red (= strong red of NSCU "Wolfpack"), single.  Carla Azalea Breeding Program.  North Carolina State Univ.  Voucher from type plant.

Paul R. Fantz  4348                           7 May 1987

Sabatia bartramii Wilbur, Rhodora 57: 91.  1955.  [Gentianaceae]
[Isotypes: 2 sheets of same collection; see #1,  #2]
United States, Florida
Escambia Co.: wet meadow in pine-lands 9 miles west of Pensacola.  Corolla rose-pink; eye yellow-green or yellow bordered by red-brown; anthers bright yellow.

G.L. Webster & R.L. Wilbur, No. 3577        July 25, 1950

Sabatia quadrangula Wilbur, Rhodora 57: 22.  1955.  [Gentianaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, North Carolina
Durham Co.: Flats along railroad track just beyond Eno River abobut 4 miles northeast of Durham.  Corolla pure white.  Filaments white, anthers pale yellow.

R.L. Wilbur no. 2899                           15 July 1951

Scutellaria thieretii Shinners, Sida 1 (4): 251-252.  1964.  [Lamiaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Louisiana
Parish: Vermillion.  Leaf veins conspicuously impressed above, raised below.  Included portion of corolla tube white, rest of corolla purple blue except for lower lip, which in the extreme center has a white area that is blotched with purple.  Roadside, in shell sand, with Cynodon dactylon, Eleusine indica, Boerhavia erecta, Malvastrum coromandelianum, Verbascum thapsus, Acalypha ostryaefolia, Helenium amarum, Monarda punctata, etc., Pecan Island.

John W. Thieret 16162             18 July 1963

Senecio millefolium Torr. & A. Gray, Fl. N. Am. 2: 444.  1843.  [Asteraceae]
[Lectoparatype]
United States, North Carolina
Whiteside Mt., N.C.  1839

Sisyrinchium mucronatum Michx., Flora Boreali-Americana 2: 33. 1803.  [Iridaceae]
[Isolectotype]
United States, North Carolina
Open woodlands, Biltmore, North Carolina

Biltmore Herbarium No. 4602b                  May 8^th, 1897

Sisyrinchium scabrellum Bickn., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 26: 230.  1899.  [Iridaceae]
[Lectotype]
United States, North Carolina
Dry woodlands near Biltmore, Buncombe Co., N.C.

Biltmore Herbarium                              May 10, 1898

Solidago villosicarpa LeBlond, Sida 19: 291-300.  2000. [Asteraceae]
[Isotype: 1, 2]

United States, North Carolina
Onslow Co.: Dry-mesic wooded flat about 1 mile inland from Intracoastal Waterway near Salliers Bay, in Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base about 0.6 mi west of Tactical Landing Zone Albatross.  Canopy of Pinus taeda over Liquidambar styraciflua, Quercus virginiana, Q. falcata, Q. stellata, Q. margarettiae, Q. nigra; Myrica cerifera var. cerifera, Symplocos tinctoria, Diospyros virginiana; Chasmanthium laxum, Panicum anceps var. rhizomatum, Pteridium aquilium  var. pseudocaudatum, Aristida purpurascens.  Vigorous response by Solidago population to recent hurricane blowdown openings..

R.J. LeBlond 5435 and B.A. Sorrie            13 Oct 2000

Solidago villosicarpa LeBlond, Sida 19: 291-300.  2000. [Asteraceae]
[Paratype]

United States, North Carolina
Onslow Co.: Dry-mesic wooded flat about 1 mile inland from Intracoastal Waterway near Salliers Bay, in Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base about 0.6 mi west of Tactical Landing Zone Albatross.  Canopy of Pinus taeda over Liquidambar styraciflua, Quercus virginiana, Q. falcata, Q. stellata, Q. margarettiae, Q. nigra; Myrica cerifera var. cerifera, Symplocos tinctoria, Diospyros virginiana; Chasmanthium laxum, Panicum anceps var. rhizomatum, Pteridium aquilium  var. pseudocaudatum, Aristida purpurascens.  Vigorous response by Solidago population to recent hurricane blowdown openings..

R.J. LeBlond 5074, A.S. Weakley, and K. Patterson            18 Oct 1998

Solidago villosicarpa LeBlond, Sida 19: 291-300.  2000. [Asteraceae]
[Paratypes: 1, 2, 3]

United States, North Carolina
Brunswick Co.: In live-oak scrub on the sand dunes, Long Beach.

R.K. Godfrey and S.G. Boyce 50963            28 Oct 1950

Solidago villosicarpa LeBlond, Sida 19: 291-300.  2000.  [Asteraceae]
[Paratype]

United States, North Carolina
Brunswick Co.: In live-oak scrub on the sand dunes, Long Beach.

R.K. Godfrey 50132                                       22 Oct 1949

Trillium decipiens Freeman, Brittonia 27(1): 17-20, f. 3-4.  1975.  [Liliaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Georgia
Early County.  Common in rich woods on W-facing bluff of Chattahoochee R., just below Tenneco Oil Depot and S of Ga. Hwy. 62 (2.2 mi. W of Hilton).  Growing with T. catesbaei.

J.D. Freeman 615 with J.T. Murrell, M. & K. Ihara              28 Mar. 1968

Trillium foetidissimum Freeman, Brittonia 27(1): 31-34, f. 6-7.  1975. [Liliaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Mississippi
Adams County.  Abundant in loess ravines under rich hardwoods S of U.S. Hwy. 61-84-98, 1.2 mi E of St. Catherine Ck. in Natchez. 

J.D. Freeman 535 with J.T. Murrell and M. Ihara                  30 Mar. 1967

Trillium reliquum Freeman, Brittonia 27(1): 21-24, f. 4-5. 1975.  [Liliaceae]
[Isotype]
United States, Georgia
Richmond County.  Very abundant in rich woods on the bluff-slope at mouth of a ravine in E-facing bluff of Savannah R. just above the old canal locks, ca. 5 mi. above Augusta.  Scapes semi-decumbent in an open S-shaped curve.  Flowers very foetid

J.D. Freeman 625 with J.T. Murrell, M. & K. Ihara              30 Mar. 1968

Trillium underwoodii Small, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 24: 172. 1897.  [Liliaceae]
[Photograph of type (NY)]
United States, Alabama
Auburn

Coll. F.S. Earle s.n.      4/4, 1896

Vincetoxicum gonocarpos Walter, Fl. Caroliniana: 104.  1788. [Apocynaceae]
[Photograph of holotype (BM)]
[Mixed material, leaves and roots refer to V. gonocarpos Walter]

Walter 687