Feedback request: Carex vulpina (1165626)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #383578

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex vulpina L. ("True Fox-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex vulpina L. ("True Fox-sedge")
Collection date:	22/8/1870
Locality:	Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, TQ2684, near Finchley Road
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1165626
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Documented by kenbalkow on 9^th January 2015.

Checked by tom humphrey

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date	user	change
10/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: Finchley Road
10/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC21, near Finchley Road TQ2684 (place)

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User comments about this sheet

kenbalkow wrote

No collector,read as Finchley Rd but could be wrong

[David Price]

Well, this is either a First VCR for Middlesex for Carex vulpina or a spmn of C. otrubae or maybe Finchley Road somewhere else.

[oldnick]

Could this be a specimen of W Thiselton Dyer, as per http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/213567/
- or possibly by J Cherry who lived in Hackney as per the specimen on right of sheet. Dyer's handwriting is similar

[David Price]

The Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora states -
In Britain [Carex vulpina] was not recognised as distinct from C. otrubae until 1939, and its full distribution may still be masked by confusion between the two. Unconfirmed reports of C. vulpina should therefore be treated with caution, examination of utricles microscopically (Stace 1991) being desirable for correct identification. Most sites for C. vulpina are in Kent, but it also occurs in Sussex, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and perhaps still survives in South Yorkshire. ..... A review of the status of C. vulpina in Britain is urgently required.

I think the specimens on this sheet (except, perhaps, Baker's) should be examined critically and are probably referable to C. otrubae.