Plants : CyperaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roemer & Schultes

Slender Club-rush

Description: This is a small and inconspicuous native plant of wet ground, mostly in coastal districts. This species lacks the projecting bract of the similar bristle club-rush (Isolepis setacea).

All names: Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roemer & Schultes; Scirpus cernus Vahl; Scirpus cernuus Vahl; Scirpus filiformis Savi, non Burm.f.; Scirpus savii Seb. & Mauri; Scirpus pygmaeus (Vahl) A.Gray, non Lam.

Distribution Map from NBN: Isolepis cernua at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Isolepis cernua at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Isolepis cernua. (Vahl) Roemer & Schultes. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=2391. Accessed on 2026-11-02.