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Herbarium specimen: Luzula sylvatica

Taxon:Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaudin ("Great Wood-rush")
Filed in taxon folder:Luzula sylvatica (Huds.) Gaudin ("Great Wood-rush")
Collected by:Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Collection date:7/4/1915
Locality:Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Shanklin, SZ5681, "Hatchet's Close & Cook's Castle Wood"
communicated:Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Luzula sylvatica herbarium specimen from Shanklin, VC10 Isle of Wight in 1915 by Rev Douglas Montague Heath.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Hatchet's Close was also known as "Cowpit Cliff" and described as a "wooded steep between Shanklin and Cook's Castle", which was a 1770 folly of which only the foundations remain 'below Martin Down' possibly at SZ 561 804.

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 taxonlocalitycollectorsdateinstitution
+Luzula sylvaticaGB, VC49 Caernarvonshire, Glyder FawrDouglas Montague Heath21/6/1926BIRM

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