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Herbarium specimen: Isolepis cernua

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult. ("Slender Club-rush")
Other name:Scirpus filiformis Savi
Collected by:Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:5/8/1944
Locality:Great Britain, VC49 Caernarvonshire, Portmadoc, SH53, River Glaslyn. Wet sandy short, tidal.
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Isolepis cernua herbarium specimen from Portmadoc, VC49 Caernarvonshire in 1944 by Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges.
collector's number:1995
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:The shape of the nut subglobose, not striate, & the v. short bracts place this plant as ... & not S. setaceus but it [rest of label obscured by curled edge]
Filing note:Cyperaceae (Blysmus to Scirpus)

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Documented by johned on 19th June 2012.

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