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Herbarium specimen: Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (C.C. Gmel.) Palla ("Grey Club-rush")
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (C.C. Gmel.) Palla ("Grey Club-rush")
Collection date:7/1874
Locality:Great Britain, VC38 Warwickshire, Southam, SP446605, Salt Sprng
ex herb:Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani herbarium specimen from Southam, VC38 Warwickshire in 1874.
notes:The salt spring, a declassified SSSI, is at SP446605. "one of only two saline springs in Warwickshire which originate from salt deposits within the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group at depth." (Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group 8/7/11.) The spring is not marked on the 1:50000 or 1:25000 map, but is indeed there, on the NE side of the woodland plantation.

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Documented by oldnick on 21st October 2010.

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