Carex hybrids

[Robin Leech]

Try some sort of helium balloon.  Raise the GPS to
above tree level, take a reading, lower the GPS,
or have a long read-out line to ground level.
Robin Leech

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Thiele" <K.Thiele at CBIT.UQ.EDU.AU>
To: <TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Carex hybrids


>A colleague working in Papua New Guinea is having great difficulty getting
> GPS fixes under the tropical canopy. Does anyone have experience with
> novel
> solutions to this problem? - there is no need for sub-metre accuracy -
> 5-10m
> would be fine.
>
> Cheers - Kevin Thiele
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taxacom Discussion List [mailto:TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU] On
> Behalf
> Of Nigel Blackstock
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2005 9:11 AM
> To: TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
> Subject: [TAXACOM] Carex hybrids
>
> Hi
>
> Does anybody know the correct name for a Carex flava x Carex  viridula
> hybrid?  I would also like to know where and when it was first  collected.
>
> Secondly, there are several synonyms for C. viridula and their  hybrids
> with
> C. flava have all been named.  Does priority go to the first  of these
> hybrids
> described (eg C. flava x C. demissa (C. viridula ssp oedocarpa)  = C. x
> alsatica described in 1890) or the hybrid for C. flava x C.  viridula?
>
> Cheers
>
> Nige
>
>
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