Similar in appearance to other Club-rushes such as Sea Club-rush (Bolboschoenus maritimus), Bolboschoenus laticarpus requires examination by an expert for safe identification of species.

Bolboschoenus maritimus

Either obtain confirmation from a County Recorder before submitting a record, or submit detailed images showing key features.  We recommend that you take and retain a specimen; the County Recorder may wish to see this for confirmation. 

Water margins.

Flowers July to September.

Perennial.

Difficulty of identification makes it hard to determine the true status, but it appears to be rare or under recorded in Britain.

The Melton record of September 2015 is believed to be the first for VC55. 

Recently separated from Bolboschoenus maritimus and therefore not recorded in the past in Leicestershire and Rutland; status unknown.

Although it is a rarely recorded native in VC55, It is not on the current RPR (Hall & Woodward, 2022), but is listed as 'data deficient' because of the recent taxonomic split.