Feedback request: Catabrosa aquatica (25429)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #289895

Taxon:	Poaceae: Catabrosa aquatica (L.) P. Beauv. ("Whorl-grass") named by James B Phipps 1960
Other name:	Catabrosa aquatica subsp. minor (Bab.) F.H.Perring & P.D.Sell named by William A Mudd 1853
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Catabrosa aquatica (L.) P. Beauv. ("Whorl-grass")
Collected by:	William A Mudd
Collection date:	1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Kildale, NZ60, "Wet sandy places"
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Six specimens.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 18^th February 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
20/02/2010	mikedaps	Added determination (orig): Catabrosa aquatica subsp. minor on 1853
20/02/2010	mikedaps	Deleted note: 1. "B (a Beta) minors" below species name - Assume refers to: Catabrosa minuta Trin. 2. Six specimens.
20/02/2010	mikedaps	Added note: Six specimens.
20/02/2010	mikedaps	Added determiner: William A Mudd

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mikedaps wrote

Again not sure if Mudd's "beta" means an alternative id if so can't trace a C. minors only C.minuta. Any ideas?

[oldnick]

minor is a subspecies of Catabrosa aquatica Stace, and BSBI handbook). I've been taking notice of letters a - c since your previous message re Mudd, and it appears to derive from the catalogue numbers on many of the labels. eg London Catalogue. Evidently, in the catalogues/checklists, subspp & varieties were lettered. I assume that naturally, b would be the letter most frequently written by collectors, as a would go without saying.

[Mike d'Apice]

Yep, had had a look in the BSBI / IPNI databases to no avail but was looking for a species "minor" not subspecies... Now makes sense! Amended, regards. Mike d'A