Herbarium specimen: Koeleria cristata
| Taxon: | Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers. ("Crested Hair-grass") named by James B Phipps 1/1961 |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers. ("Crested Hair-grass") |
| Collected by: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Collection date: | 7/12/1920 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Hotwells, ST57, Top of rock adjoining retaining wall of R[iver] Avon below Hotwells Bristol |
| ex herb: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |   |
| fruits/flowers: | seeds/fruits |
| notes: | Growing with Bromus madrifensis, Allium oleraceum, etc. Some dozens of spikes in the clump. Some of the leaves 12" to 13" long Dr Stapf write from Kew Dec[ember] 3rd 1920 in regard t some of this gathering sent him:- "This corresponds to what we have as K britannica Domm as written up by authors. True the leaves are some what long [and] the spikelets to glabrous, but Domm admits a form with glabrous spiklets, [and] the leaves vary to some extent in lenght. I should hardly think it is a distinct sp[ecies]. They seem to be rather topical variations. |
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Documented by hallucigenia on 30th January 2010.
