Feedback request: Luzula pallidula (28473)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #290004

Taxon:	Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. ("Heath Wood-rush")
Filed in taxon folder:	Luzula pallidula Kirschner ("Fen Wood-rush")
Collected by:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Collection date:	8/1871
Locality:	Great Britain, VC85 Fifeshire, Balmuto,Pirniss Wood, NT28
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
Filing note:	Luzula multiflora var. pallescens

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Documented by mossysal on 20^th February 2010.

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date	user	change
20/02/2010	mossysal	Deleted determination (orig): Luzula pallidula
20/02/2010	mossysal	Added determination (orig): Luzula multiflora

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mossysal wrote

No records of L pallidula anywhere north of Cambridge!

[oldnick]

Hmmm... The original label says 'L multiflora var'; so I don't know from where arose the 'filing note' L multiflora var pallescens - which doesn't exist and I suspect never has... The two species do look similar apparently. pallidula and pallescens are the same. I suspect the original label is right?

[mossysal]

Flora Europea has a L.campestre subsp pallescens = L. pallescens Sw. which may be where the confusion arose. But this is not the same L. pallescens (auct. non Sw.] which = L pallidula!!

I have changed the name just to L multiflora. Do you agree?