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Species: Rhynchospora megalocarpa
Annotated Since Imaged?: True
Collection Date: August 18, 1999
Bar Code ID: 000021389
UUID: 577c0e52-223d-41e8-ae69-82cdf9349cf4
Collectors: Loran C. Anderson
Collector's Identifier: 19017
Fruit Present?: True
Country: United States
State or Province: Florida
County or Parish: Nassau
Fips Code: 12089
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Special Geographical Unit: Ralph E. Simmons State Forest
Verbatim Directions to Locality: Ralph E. Simmons State Forest (3-4 air miles SE of Folkston, Georgia) by Expt. Learning Center overlooking the St Marys River.
Township: 5N
Range: 24E
Section: 39
Habitat: in drying loamy sand along ecotone of hardwoods on top of bluff [over] St Marys River.
Local Abundance Observations: frequent.

Identification Records

Identifier's Name: Loran C. Anderson
Formal Identification Date: 1999-08-18
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Identification History: Rhynchospora odorata Wright ex Griseb
Identifier's Name: Chris Buddenhagen
Formal Identification Date: 2015-05-27
Lowest Rank Identified: Species
Further Identification Comments: I extracted DNA from this specimen and it came out with R. megalocarpa in a phylogeny. Upon checking this specimen is in fact R. megalocarpa.
Identification History: Rhynchospora megalocarpa A.Gray
Determinavit: det.

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