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Herbarium specimen: Carex spicata

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Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
det. Richard William David 5/6/1985
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Collected by:John Frederick Gustav Chapple
Collection date:14/6/1933
Locality:Great Britain, VC23 Oxfordshire, Beckley, SP51
ex herb:Mr Patrick Martin Hall
Institution:Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:1131149
Image:Carex spicata herbarium specimen from Beckley, VC23 Oxfordshire in 1933 by John Frederick Gustav Chapple.
notes:Carex contigua Hoppe. Correctly named. - Fraser. Correctly named but rather young. Many of the sheets however show fruits containing the characteristic obtusely quadrangular nuts. The beak of the fruit is very deeply bifid and serrulate well down to the shoulders. The ligules and opposite appendages are those of this species. - Pearsall.

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+Carex spicataGB, VC23 Oxfordshire, BeckleyJohn Frederick Gustav Chapple14/6/1932BM

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