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Voucher #15722


Identification (Voucher 66142)

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Dichanthelium
Specific epithet
laxiflorum
Specific author
(Lamarck) Gould
Determination by
S.Darbyshire, DAO.
Date determined
Identification comments
ID tentative (by CJR as D.boreale). 2mm hairy spikelets, long hairs on sheaths, bright green, thin shiny foliage, ascending upper leaves. By S.Darbyshire, DAO, December 2009: "Your plants (2827, 2830 and 2856) seem to fit reasonably well into a "synthesized" concept of D. laxiflorum (although not an exact fit for the FNA treatment)."
Group
Rothfels
User
crothfels
Date created
Dec 23, 2023
Date updated
Dec 23, 2023

Voucher (Voucher )

Primary collector
C.J.Rothfels
Collection number
2827
Other collectors
W.Cook, H.LeGrand, DNHS.
Duplicate locations
3. To: DAO, NCSC, __.
Date collected
Country of origin
U.S.A.
Primary Subdivision
North Carolina
Secondary subdivision
Granville County
Specific locality
Sewerline along Knap of Reeds Creek southwest of Veasey Drive, beginning ~200m SE of junction of Old Oxford Highway and Veasey Dr. The sewerline clearing passes through a mix of uplands with prairie/savannah elements and marshes, over diabase sill, with basic or circumneutral soil, rare in the North Carolina piedmont.
Longitude (DD)
-78.78963
Latitude (DD)
36.1412
Datum
WGS 84
Elevation (m)
100
Description
Plants that looked generally like this (see also CJR et al. 2830) were common. This collection was at the edge of (and extending into) a rarely mowed sewerline right-of-way through mixed forest, with Scleria, Carex spp., Cornus, Ostyra, Acer, Cercis, Pinus, Melica, Sphenopholis, Hypericum stragulum, etc.
Group
Rothfels
User
crothfels
Date created
Dec 23, 2023
Date updated
Dec 23, 2023

Material (Voucher 66142)

Material Type
Silica-dried?
Material Comments
Entered into the DB in Dec 2023; I think there's silica available, but I'm not certain.
Group
Rothfels
User
crothfels
Date created
Dec 23, 2023
Date updated
Dec 23, 2023