| In the last decades, Van der Meijdenʼs editions of the Heukels’ Flora recognized only a single taxon in the 'Bolboschoenus maritimus group’ for the Netherlands: Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla, formerly known as Scirpus maritimus L. This is probably because the previously recognized infraspecific taxa were solely based on inflorescence architecture. These characters, however, vary between and within populations, and even within clones or individuals. However, in Central Europe the study of a new character, pericarp morphology, resulted in new insights in the taxonomy of the ‘Bolboschoenus maritimus group’. A species new to science, B. laticarpus Marhold, Hroudová, Ducháček & Zákr., has been reported to occur in the Netherlands as well. In this... |
