Feedback request: Carex fusca (47227)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #397302

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex buxbaumii Wahlenb. ("Club Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex fusca All.
Collected by:	Mr Arthur Bennett
Collection date:	1883 1899
Locality:	Cultivated Ireland, VCH36,VCH39, Lough Neagh, J07
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	From plant collected by Percival of Manchester Bot Garden. Root from W Curnow to A Bennett. A B's garden, Croydon 1899

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 6^th August 2015.

Checked by tom humphrey

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date	user	change
06/08/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Carex fusca
06/08/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Carex buxbaumii
06/08/2015	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Carex buxbaumii

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oldnick wrote

This plant has the possible appearance either of C buxbaumii as originally labelled, or of C fusca (= nigra) as entered on h@h - but the four botanists involved in the original naming are likely to be right, and the provenance would be OK

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Nick,

Thanks very much for your comments on this.

When, as in this case, naming has gone awry (either due to a filing mistake at the herbarium or an error when I loaded the specimen to h@h) please feel free to more ruthlessly change the name given to the sheet. In this case the specimen ought to be treated as C. buxbaumii and as there is no reference to C. fusca on the sheet then I'd be inclined just to delete that name from the form (as the system would still track that the sheet had been (mis)filed as fusca).

regards,

Tom