Herbarium specimen: Cerastium pumilum

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Cerastium pumilum Curtis ("Dwarf Mouse-ear")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Cerastium pumilum Curtis ("Dwarf Mouse-ear")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Collection date:	22/5/1858
Locality:	Great Britain, VC3 South Devon, Torquay, SX96
ex herb:	Prof Charles Cardale Babington Mr Harold Stuart Thompson Norman Douglas Simpson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	buds/immature flowers
notes:	These specs came from C.C.Babbington and had been labelled "C. tetr" in pencil over which was written in ink "C. pumilum". For the life of me I can't see any "extremely narrow scarion margin in upper bracts" nor any caricature of the caps. N D Simpson. I think probably these must have been a nucture as the sheet as I picked out are [or] two C. pumilum wh. shared these characters. However the fruit stalks are sub-equal to calip at any rate not 2 - 4 times as in C. tetr. Do you agree C. pumilum? I should call these 3 specimens C. tetrandrum. The bracts seem wholly leafy, not scarious at all. H.S.T.

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Related specimens

Other specimens with similar collection dates, collectors or localities.


	taxon	locality	collectors	date	institution
+	Cerastium pumilum	GB, VC3 South Devon, Daddy Hole Down	Frederick Townsend	5/5/1858	SLBI
+	Cerastium pumilum	GB, VC3 South Devon, Torquay	Frederick Townsend	2/6/1858	BIRM
+	Cerastium pumilum	GB, VC3 South Devon, Torquay	Frederick Townsend	22/5/1858	BIRM

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Documented by joanneloundes on 21^st December 2008.