Herbarium specimen: Carex riparia
| Taxon: | Cyperaceae: Carex riparia Curtis ("Greater Pond-sedge") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Cyperaceae: Carex riparia Curtis ("Greater Pond-sedge") |
| Collected by: | Mr George Claridge Druce |
| Collection date: | 6/1919 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC23 Oxfordshire, Yarnton, SP41, In a ballasthole, now encroached upon by sallows. |
| Institution: | Natural History Museum (BM) |
| Accession number: | 1126648 |
| Image: |  |
| collector's number: | 2559 |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | Differing from the type by its more slender growth, shorter female spikes, and somewhat smaller fruits. It is a tall plant, attaining four to five feet. - G.C. Druce. "Surely only a small sstate of riparia, no variety" - A. Bennett. |
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Documented by johned on 19th April 2015.
