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Carex elongata
L.
Elongated
Sedge
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Essex
status: Native, probably extinct.
A
densely tufted sedge with short rhizomes that can only be confused with
the C. paniculata/ appropinquata/diandra group. It
is however distinctive, in having a very narrow pointed ligule, and
ovoid utricles. Now a very rare sedge, confined to only 38 scattered
hectads nationally (post1970-2006), having been lost from 34. It is most
characteristic of neglected alder and willow carr that dries out in
summer. It has been searched for along the boggy streams in Chalkney
Wood and Lt Monks Wood, Marks Hall (KJA 1980s), but to no avail.
All records:
TL(52)82 |
83 ,26 |
19 |
Marks Hall Wood, between Halstead & Coggeshall, ‘first found by
Varenne in 1844’. (Gibson, 1862).[ this wood straddles the
parish boundary, so the site may have been close to this
boundary]. |
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82 ,25 |
19 |
Lt. Monk Wood, Marks Hall, June 1847. Edward Forster. Herbarium
Kew |
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82 ,25 |
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Marks Hall, 1849. Dr Ezekiel Varenne. Herbarium CGE.
[most of the wood bearing this name on the 1st edition O.S. map
has now been converted to arable]. |
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87,27/8 |
19 |
Chalkney Wood, Dr Ezekiel Varenne, date ? (Gibson 1862).[N.B.
the 1844 date (Gibson 1862) clearly refers to the Marks Hall
site. Since it was Varenne who found it at Marks Hall, it is
likely that his Chalkney Wood record is equally correct and
should be accepted despite the absence of a specimen].
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