Feedback request: Carex contigua (46672)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #396432

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex contigua
Other name:	Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex contigua
Collected by:	Peter Charles Holland
Collection date:	5/8/1962
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, Eggs Hole, TQ873213, Coppice
ex herb:	Peter Charles Holland
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by oldnick on 15^th July 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
07/10/2016	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC14 Rye, Coppice at Eggs Hole TQ873213 (place)
07/10/2016	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC14 Eggs Hole, Coppice TQ873213 (col)

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oldnick wrote

'Carex contigua' - have we started using this old name for C spicata?

[David Price]

Are these not C. divulsa?

[oldnick]

Yes, they do look very like C divulsa (ssp divulsa?), and it looks as if the curatorial entry of 'C spicata' - with question mark - was a rather wild guess (my apologies for pot calling kettle black). Incidentally, both CTW2 and Stace 2 have C contigua (h@h name) as a synonym of C spicata