Feedback request: Carex nigra (200705161425_2389)

[John Hughes]

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Specimen #240524

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex pulicaris L. ("Flea Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex nigra (L.) Reichard ("Common Sedge")
Collected by:	Dr Andrew David Quentin Agnew
Collection date:	9/7/1998
Locality:	Great Britain, VC46 Cardiganshire, Llyn Eiddwen, SN66, Flora of Ceredigion. West Wales Wildlife Trust, Reserves. Bog on west side Nature Reserve: bog on west side.
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johnhawksford on 28^th November 2007.

Checked by keith barnett

Edit history

date	user	change
22/05/2009	keith barnett	Deleted locality: GB VC46 Llyn Eiddwen, West Wales Wildlife Trust Naturev Reserve: bog on west side.
22/05/2009	keith barnett	Added locality: GB VC46 Llyn Eiddwen, West Wales Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve: bog on west side.
22/05/2009	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted collector: Dr Andrew David Quentin Agnew
22/05/2009	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added collector: Dr Andrew David Quentin Agnew
26/03/2012	john hughes	Deleted determination (orig): Carex nigra
26/03/2012	john hughes	Added determination (orig): Carex pulicaris
26/03/2012	john hughes	Deleted locality: GB VC46 Llyn Eiddwen, West Wales Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve: bog on west side.
26/03/2012	john hughes	Added locality: GB VC46 Llyn Eiddwen, West Wales Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve: bog on west side.
26/03/2012	dawn nelson	Deleted locality: GB VC46 Llyn Eiddwen, West Wales Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve: bog on west side.
26/03/2012	dawn nelson	Added locality: GB VC46 Llyn Eiddwen, Flora of Ceredigion. West Wales Wildlife Trust, Reserves. Bog on west side Nature Reserve: bog on west side.

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User comments about this sheet

john hughes wrote

A
mystery why this had been documented as C.nigra. It is C.pulicaris as it says on
the sheet.

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi John,

The sheet was probably misfiled in the herbarium, or possibly I may have made a mistake when adding taxon names to the batch of sheets. Because names are assigned to folders rather than to sheets, specimens are generally only checked individually when documented. Volunteers who document sheets are discouraged from renaming sheets unless they judge themselves to have sufficient botanical competence to do so reliably (and even, as here, when someone expert did the original documentation, when working through a large batch its easy to miss something).

Mostly this works fairly well, but there's obviously potential for occasional errors to slip through. Thank you for correcting this sheet.

regards,

Tom

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