Feedback request: Melica uniflora (200705181156_6948)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #263301

Taxon:	Poaceae: Melica uniflora Retz. ("Wood Melick")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Melica uniflora Retz. ("Wood Melick")
Collected by:	Charles Smith Nicholson
Collection date:	23/5/1915
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Cheddar, ST45, rock ledges near the top of the gorge
ex herb:	Charles Smith Nicholson
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
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Documented by keith barnett on 28^th July 2008.

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keith barnett wrote

not a plant I am familiar with, but are we sure this is not M. nutans, as identified by CSN?

[David Price]

The inflorescence of M. nutans is a raceme; this plant has a panicle & is
M. uniflora. (Also M.nutans has never been recorded from Cheddar).