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Herbarium specimen: Eleocharis parvula

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Eleocharis parvula (Roem. & Schult.) Link ex Bluff, Nees & Schauer ("Dwarf Spike-rush")
Collected by:Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:17/8/1949
Locality:Ireland, VCH2 North Kerry, Ballybunnion, Q84, On mud at half tide, above the bridge over R. Casheen.
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Eleocharis parvula herbarium specimen from Ballybunnion, VCH2 North Kerry in 1949 by Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges.
collector's number:1993
fruits/flowers:no flowers
notes:No signs of flowers but frequent over a limited area. Root tubers v. characteristic.
Filing note:Cyperaceae (Blysmus to Scirpus)

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Documented by johned on 2nd July 2012.

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