Feedback request: Cyperus fuscus (45300)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #393804

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Cyperus fuscus L. ("Brown Galingale")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Cyperus fuscus L. ("Brown Galingale")
Collected by:	Sir John Joseph Bennett
Collection date:	1831
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17,VC21, Fulham, TQ27, Haworth...[?] near Parson's Green
ex herb:	Robert Russell Hutchinson Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Sir John Joseph Bennett
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Documented by oldnick on 24^th May 2015.

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date	user	change
24/05/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC17,VC21 Fulham, Near Parson's Green
24/05/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17,VC21 Fulham, Haworth...[?] near Parson's Green

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oldnick wrote

'Haworth...' could refer to the abode of the naturalist Adrian Hardy Haworth who lived in Little Chelsea on the Fulham Road from 1792 - 1812 and 1817 until his death in 1833 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Hardy_Haworth For a C fuscus specimen from Little Chelsea dated 1846 see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/393814/

[Roger Horton]

Could it say 'Cyperus haworthii' a synonym for Cyperus fuscus?

[Roger Horton]

There is an interesting note regarding this plant in Journal of Botany Volume 9 (1871) p. 148. If you zoom in on the OS via Streetmap you can see Eel Brook Common.

Adrian Hardy Haworth is variously described as living in Little Chelsea or Queen's Elm, both on the Fulham Road.

[oldnick]

Yes this does seem to read C haworthii which is written more clearly on http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/393830/ collected in 1819 by Haworth from Fulham. h@h has 9 specimens of C fuscus from Chelsea, 2 from Fulham. I see the J Bot 1871 excerpt has varying views as to whether native status here and at Shalford; E S Marshall has labelled his h@h sheets from Shalford 'hardly looks native'. I see Stace 2 has it as native, marked RRR. It does seem lucky that the famed international plant collector Haworth, who has various plants named after him, should live so close to and discovered such a rarity, not least as some other naturalists also inhabited the area.