Feedback request: Carex caryophyllea (140709_223)

[Robin Walls]

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Specimen #284807

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex caryophyllea Latourr. ("Spring-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex caryophyllea Latourr. ("Spring-sedge")
Collected by:	Philip Brookes Mason
Collection date:	6/1874
Locality:	Great Britain, VC69 Westmorland, Helvellyn, NY31
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24107
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	second label from Lerwick, 6/75

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Documented by rmwalls on 21^st December 2009.

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rmwalls wrote

Several of the specimens do not look like C.caryophylea because of the more remote female spikes with a long peduncle. C. bigelowii is a posibility and C.caryophyllea is absent from Shetland.