Feedback request: Carex maritima (13477)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #273140

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex maritima Gunnerus ("Curved Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex maritima Gunnerus ("Curved Sedge")
Collected by:	Mr Henry Ibbotson
Collection date:	1851
Locality:
ex herb:	Mr Henry Ibbotson Prof George Stephen West William A Mudd
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by chrisu on 2^nd April 2009.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
02/04/2009	chrisu	Deleted locality:
02/04/2009	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC62 Ganthorpe
24/05/2011	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC62 Ganthorpe
24/05/2011	wonastow	Added locality:
24/05/2011	wonastow	Added collector: Mr Henry Ibbotson
24/05/2011	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb William A Mudd

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User comments about this sheet

chrisu wrote

Location please..........Grassmoor?

[Tom Humphrey]

On some other Ibbotson sheets the same placename has been read as Ganthorp [Ganthorpe] - which looks possible (but I'm not entirely convinced).


OS Grid reference SE6970

[Tom Humphrey]

Ibbotson lived at Ganthorpe (or at least published his Guide to Castle Howard while there). There's also a Watsonia reference [pdf] to: "An Ibbotson herbarium sheet at NCE of Erysimum cheiranthoides tells us that it was collected from a turnip field at Ganthorpe."

[David Price]

Ganthorp(e), close to Castle Howard, is but a few miles from Malton where Ibbotson was a schoolmaster, and was one of his stamping grounds.

[David Price]

I should have added that Ibbotson is known to have dealt in pressed plants; perhaps the place of collection of this plant was confused. Is the plant correctly determined? Could it be C. ovalis?

[alex lockton]

It's definitely C. maritima, but I agree that Ganthorpe is Ibbotson's location, not the site where it was collected (the label could be read either way). Ibbotson did collect C. maritima in Scotland in 1836 and 1849; possibly this is a specimen from one of those collections, or possibly he subsequently cultivated it (I have it growing happily in my garden in Shropshire). I don't think we should add a dot to the map on the basis of this one.

[David Price]

Ibbotson collected this taxon at Montrose http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/254958/