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Herbarium specimen: Carex flacca

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex flacca Schreb. ("Glaucous Sedge")
named by F D Hanson 2/1955
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex flacca Schreb. ("Glaucous Sedge")
Collected by:Mr James Cosmo Melvill
Collection date:1903
Locality:Great Britain, VC59 South Lancashire, Prestwich, SD80, Sidgley
ex herb:Rev. Augustin Ley
Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Carex flacca herbarium specimen from Prestwich, VC59 South Lancashire in 1903 by Mr James Cosmo Melvill.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:'Carex Scop. forma gracilis'. Spontaneously occurring during several years 1898-1903 , but locality was built over and so destroyed.

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Documented by oldnick following initial work by rmwalls on 11th January 2009.

Checked by keith barnett

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