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Sat Jun 13 09:08:41 2020Kim KuskaCommented on type statusAdolph Daniel Edward (A.D.E.) Elmer__s Pedicularis dudley specimen RSA0006087 (POM15809) should be recognized as an ISOTYPE; its specimen record currently does not list it as being an ISOTYPE specimen. I believe this is an error since this P. dudley specimen was collected by Elmer at the same time and location he collected the other 12 P. dudley specimens, and each of them are recognized as either a HOLOTYPE, ISOTOPE, ISOSYNTYPE, or CO-TYPE specimen: ________1) DS65016 Holotype Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County, Pescadero Creek __Iverson__s Place; Coordinates: 37.2460 -122.2130 BerkeleyMapper; Datum: NAD83; ER = 1.0 km; Coordinate source: Terrain Nav. v. 8.7 (copied from SBBG33515); Notes: 2 images; 2nd image with protologue folded back. California Academy of Sciences is the home institution for this record.____2) CAS21905 Isotype Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County, Iverson Place, Pescadero Creek. Coordinates: 37.2460 -122.2130 BerkeleyMapper; Datum: NAD83; ER = 1.0 km; Coordinate source: Terrain Nav. v. 8.7 (copied from SBBG33515); California Academy of Sciences is the home institution for this record.____3) US00125617 Isotype Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County, Pescadero (Creek). United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution (US) is the home institution for this record [Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)].____4) ORE96661 Isotype, Barcode OSC0001063, Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County, Pescadero Creek, Iverson__s place. Oregon State University Herbarium is the home institution for this record.____5) OSC13738 Isotype, Barcode OSC0001707, Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County, Iverson__s place, Pescadero Creek. Oregon State University Herbarium is the home institution for this record.____6) MICH1229136 Isosyntype A.D.E. Elmer, Collection #4289, 00 Jun 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). United States, California, San Mateo County; Iverson S Ranch. University of Michigan Herbarium is the home institution for this record.____7) MICH1229137 Isosyntype A.D.E. Elmer, Collection #4289, 00 Jun 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). United States, California, San Mateo County, Pescadero Creek. University of Michigan Herbarium is the home institution for this record.____8) NY90895 Isotype Record Id: 800f15d1-770d-4a69-ad43-137022350125Catalog #: 90895; A.D.E. Elmer, Collection #4289, 00 Jun 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). United States, California, San Mateo County, Pescadero (Creek). Coordinates: 37.2521 -122.3824 BerkeleyMapper; Datum: WGS84; ER = 3.484 km; Coordinate source: GoogleMaps via BerkeleyMapper (copied from DS110763). New York Botanic Garden Herbarium is the home institution for this record. (This herbarium sheet contains two plants). ____9) RBGE#E00279310 Isosyntype RBGE Barcode # E00279310 A.D.E. Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). United States, California, San Mateo County, Pescadero Creek. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburg (Scotland) is the home institution for this record. (This herbarium sheet contains two plants).____10) GH91090 Isotype Catalog # barcode-00091090 A.D.E. Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County, Iverson__s Ranch, Pescadero Creek; Coordinates: 37.2460 -122.2130 BerkeleyMapper; Datum: NAD83; ER = 1.0 km; Coordinate source: Terrain Nav. v. 8.7 (copied from SBBG33515); Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) is the home institution for this record. (This herbarium sheet may contain two plants). ____11) SBBG33318 Isotype Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County; Pescadero Creek (Iverson__); Coordinates: 37.246 -122.213 BerkeleyMapper; Datum: NAD83; ER = 1000 m; Coordinate source:. The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is the home institution for this record.____12) UC306599 Co-type Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, Collection #4289, June 1903 (probably June 6, 1903). North America, United States, California, San Mateo County; Iverson's Place Pescadero Creek; Iverson's Place, Pescadero Creek; Coordinates: 37.2468 -122.2135 BerkeleyMapper; Datum: WGS84; ER = 300 meters; Coordinate source: BerkeleyMapper. Voucher information: from types database; Co-type; Annotations and/or curatorial actions: Pedicularis dudleyi Elmer, December 03, 1997; Pedicularis dudleyi Elmer, L. Vorobik, 1992, annot. as "! As determined"; Pedicularis dudleyi Elmer, Annotator unknown, Identification on label. annot. followed by "Co-type"; Notes: Date as "June, 1903" (probably June 6, 1903); The Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley is the home institution for this record.____13) RSA0006087 (POM15809) A. D. E. Elmer1903-06 (probably June 6, 1903) #4289 San Mateo Iverson's Place, Pescadero Creek. (This specimen record should also be labeled as an Isotype).____Note: A.D.E. Elmer seemed to have a habit of recording the dates for his specimens with just the month and year. For example, for each of his 13 P. dudleyi specimens above, he recorded each of their dates as June 1903. I believe he collected all 13 of these P. dudleyi species on Saturday June 6, 1903 during a plant- collecting trip he made with his Stanford grad professor William Russel Dudley to Christian Iverson__s Place along Pescadero Creek (now within Portola Redwoods State Park) in San Mateo County. [Because of this, I added the following phrase to each of the specimen records above: (probably June 6, 1903)]. On that same date and at the exact same location, W.R. Dudley also collected a P. dudleyi specimen as well: ____CAS-BOT-BC266668 (DS244338) Pedicularis dudleyi W. R. Dudley, 1903-6-6 June 6, 1903____San Mateo County, Santa Cruz Peninsula. Near Iverson's, Pescadero Creek.____ Professor Dudley had also collected a P. dudleyi specimen about a month earlier on Saturday May 2, 1903 (DS244336), but that specimen was found about 1__ miles north of where he collected his Saturday June 6, 1903 P. dudleyi specimen near Christian Iverson__s place. For Professor Dudley and his grad student A.D.E. Elmer to both collect P. dudleyi specimens at this new location (near Christian Iverson__s place) seems most likely only if they were there together on this June 6, 1903 joint plant collecting outing. Professor Dudley is considered the most important local plant collector of the Santa Cruz Mountains, adding 50,000 specimens to the Dudley__s Herbarium, collecting nearly every weekend from 1893 to 1910 on foot, horseback, and horse and wagon; it was apparently not uncommon for a few of his botany students to join him on these plant collecting adventures. For example, on Friday, May 1, 1903 and Saturday, May 2, 1903, William Russel Dudley evidently took D.D. Davis (a Stanford University student who earned his B.A. degree in General Botany in 1903) with him on one of these plant-collecting outings to what is now the Portola Redwoods State Park (PRSP) region, where they both collected a P. dudleyi specimen (Dudley__s specimen DS244336; D.D. Davis__ specimen DS244322) as well as Vancouveria planipetala (Dudley__s specimen CAS-BOT-BC76147; D.D. Davis__ specimen DS43257). On this same trip, both Dudley and Davis collected several specimens in the exact same location, at Christian Iverson__s place: Dudley: Salix scouleriana (DS62267), Salix sitchensis (CAS-BOT-BC126499), and Quercus wislizeni (DS62346); and D.D. Davis: Vancouveria planipetala (DS43257), Trillium ovatum (CAS-BOT-BC133437), and Drymocallis glandulosa var. glandulosa (DS38861). Furthermore, I believe that W.R. Dudley__s botany grad student A.D.E. Elmer was also on this same May 1 & 2, 1903 collecting-trip with both professor Dudley and D.D. Davis; although he only labeled the date of his specimens as May 1903, Elmer also collected several specimens in the exact same location, at Christian Iverson__s place: Vancouveria planipetala (CAS13538 & UC30677), Salix scouleriana (CAS113927 & POM167366), Montia parvifolia (DS64681 & SBBG33495), and Calochortus albus (UC306641 & RSA169882). About a month later, probably on June 6, 1903, A.D.E. Elmer collected all of his 13 type/isotype P. dudleyi specimens at this same location: __Iverson Place, Pescadero Creek;__ he then used these 13 specimens to describe P. dudley as a new species in the May 1906 volume of the New and Noteworthy Western Plants. III. Botanical Gazette 41(5): 309-326. (316-317). At the time he collected these type specimens in June 1903, A.D.E. Elmer was finishing up his grad studies at Stanford University under Professor Dudley. In his 1906 Botanical Gazette article, A.D.E. Elmer wrote that Pedicularis dudley was named in honor of his Stanford graduate professor, William Russel Dudley, who Elmer attributed as the discoverer of P. dudley. It was quite typical for Professor Dudley to let one of his students write the original description for a new species like PEDU, even though Dudley discovered the plant, which is just one of the reasons that he was regarded as __one of America's foremost teachers of botany.__ Many of his students would go on to become some of leading botanists or scientists in the country. Elmer__s June 1903 13 P. dudleyi type/isotype specimens would be some of his last specimens he would collect in California; shortly after graduation, Elmer traveled to the Philippines where he discovered numerous new plant species. While in the Philippines, Elmer was captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Bataan, and died in a concentration camp in 1942 at the age of 72. His wife, Emma Osterman Elmer, who was also captured, amazingly survived the battle and the Bataan Death March, and returned to the United States after the war.____
OriginalRSA0006087Pedicularis dudleyiA. D. E. Elmer1903-06 4289 San MateoIverson's Place, Pescadero Creek.
ModificationRSA0006087Pedicularis dudleyiA. D. E. Elmer1903-06 4289 San MateoIverson's Place, Pescadero Creek.
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