Feedback request: Carex muricata (13510)

[Robin Walls]

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Specimen #267116

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex muricata subsp. pairae named by R W David 9/12/1974 probably common form though glumes are dark - ?time of flowering? Interesting.
Other name:	Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex muricata L.
Locality:	Great Britain, VC26 West Suffolk, Brandon Warren, TL78, Ru - q r
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	fruiting specimens seen by P M Benoit.
Filing note:	Warwickshire voucher specimens

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by rmwalls on 18^th November 2008.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
18/11/2008	wonastow	Deleted locality:
18/11/2008	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC26 Brandon Warren TL78 (place)
24/08/2011	oldnick	Deleted note: fruiting speco seen by P M Benoit
24/08/2011	oldnick	Added notes
17/10/2011	oldnick	Deleted determination (orig): Carex spicata on 9/12/1974
17/10/2011	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Carex spicata
17/10/2011	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Carex muricata on 9/12/1974
17/10/2011	oldnick	Deleted note: fruiting speco seen by P M Benoit. Date: 'C19'[?].
17/10/2011	oldnick	Added notes
17/10/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC26 Brandon Warren TL78 (place)
17/10/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC26 Brandon Warren, Ru - q r TL78 (place)
17/10/2011	oldnick	Deleted determiner: R W David
17/10/2011	oldnick	Added determiner: R W David
17/10/2011	oldnick	Added determiner's note: probably common form though glumes are dark - ?time of flowering? Interesting.
17/10/2011	mossysal	Deleted determination (orig): Carex muricata on 9/12/1974
17/10/2011	mossysal	Added determination (orig): Carex muricata subsp. pairae on 9/12/1974
17/10/2011	mossysal	Deleted note: fruiting specimens seen by P M Benoit. Date: 'C19'[?].
17/10/2011	mossysal	Added note: fruiting specimens seen by P M Benoit.
17/10/2011	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC26 Brandon Warren, Ru - q r TL78 (place)
17/10/2011	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC26 Brandon Warren, Ru - q r
17/10/2011	mossysal	Deleted determiner: R W David
17/10/2011	mossysal	Added determiner: R W David
17/10/2011	mossysal	Added determiner's note: probably common form though glumes are dark - ?time of flowering? Interesting.

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User comments about this sheet

rmwalls wrote

no site or collector

[oldnick]

This sheet's provenance is confused, and also has been entered on H@H as C spicata, which contradicts both David's determination and the original label. The site 'Brandon Warren' is surely VC 26 W Suffolk; though the label is characteristic of the Flora of Warwickshire series of c 1970; and has been entered as such on H@H; I don't know if the sqiggle resembling ?'J Lom' has anything to do with a collector. In CTW 2nd ed, C muricata is given the alternative name C piraei, and C spicata is given the alternative name C muricata auct angl p p !

[mossysal]

1. Peter M Benoit was born in 1931 and is still very much with us!
2. Stace 3 has C muricata subsp pairae = C muricata subsp lamprocarpa, which is the common subspecies, of course, so probably this {fide David} unless Robin Walls has decided it is C. spicata though the edit history doesn't say so.

[oldnick]

spicata was how I found the sheet had been entered originally; muricata is what I added.