Herbarium specimen: Bromopsis erecta
| Taxon: | Poaceae: Bromopsis erecta (Huds.) Fourr. ("Upright Brome") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Poaceae: Bromopsis erecta (Huds.) Fourr. ("Upright Brome") |
| Collected by: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Collection date: | 20/6/1931 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Frocester Hill, SO7902 |
| ex herb: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | seeds/fruits |
| notes: | Much branched, stiff form of foliage, everywhere these apparent [and] due perhaps to the wet season. Normal filiform root leaves also sent H.S. Thompson. "This specimen of Bromus erecta Huds. Which you send labelled Frocester, E Glous.June 1931 H.S. Thompson is attacked by the smut fungus Ustilago striaeformis [West} Niessl. This fungus is not uncommon on Bromus erecta " signed J Ramsbottom [keeper of botany] Brit[ish] Mus[eum] Nat[ural] Hist[ory]. Copy of letter to E.C.Wallace Sutton Surrey May 12th 1932. |
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Documented by hallucigenia on 12th March 2010.
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