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Old 31-05-2004, 02:17 PM
Iris Cohen
 
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Default Another Mystery

I just bought a miniature sedge labeled Carex berggrenii. On Google there are
numerous entries from catalogues, but nothing scientific that tells me
anything. It is supposedly a native of New Zealand but was also found growing
on Spitzbergen. A search of IPNI and MBG:W3Tropicos reveals they never heard of
it. I think the taxonomist was Heer. If you ask IPNI for the genus Carex you
get thousands of entries. Anybody got any further information?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
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