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Sphaeropteris cooperi
Filed today as sphaeropteris cooperi. The name on the sheet and the name in the database disagree — the sheet is not wrong, it is earlier.
- Family
- Cyatheaceae
- Order
- Cyatheales
- Herbarium
- CM
- Catalogue no.
- CM348393
- Collected by
- Lobdell, E.
- Collector no.
- 274
- Determined by
- R. Moran 1989
- Date
- 1988-08-19
- Locality
- Pittsburgh, Phipps Conservatory, Fern Room
- Country
- United States
- Coordinates
- 40.4391, -79.9476
- Region
- Elsewhere (same species)
The claim stack
Everything anyone has asserted about this sheet, oldest first. Machine readings enter at the bottom and never overwrite a line above them. This is how determination slips have always worked; VISION only keeps the practice honest when the annotator is a model.
- humanCollected at Pittsburgh, Phipps Conservatory, Fern RoomLobdell, E. · 1988-08-19
- humanDetermined as Sphaeropteris cooperiR. Moran 1989 · on the sheet
- aggregatorNow filed under sphaeropteris cooperiCurrent taxonomic backbone · current
- humanReproductive state from the collector's reproductiveCondition score: vegetativeCollector · structured field · 2026-07-31
- machinePulled from iDigBio and normalisedVISION · harvest agent · 2026-07-31
