Rare Plant Register for Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the ...
Rare Plant Register for Huntingdonshire - Botanical Society of the ...
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Monks Wood, field south <strong>of</strong> TL194793 2004 (TW)<br />
A rare constituent <strong>of</strong> remnant old grassland on <strong>the</strong> boulder clay.<br />
Polypodium interjectum Shivas<br />
Intermediate Polypody<br />
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: <strong>Rare</strong> (2 sites, 2 tetrads)<br />
Site Grid Reference Last Record<br />
Brampton Wood SSSI TL17677036<br />
Monks Wood SSSI, boundary<br />
Compartments 27 and 30<br />
64<br />
TL17787024<br />
TL17807022<br />
2011 (LF & LB)<br />
2008 (JD & LB)<br />
2011 (LF & LB)<br />
TL193794 1995 (CP & JaC)<br />
An uncommon fern <strong>of</strong> mossy tree trunks in ancient woodland and, although <strong>the</strong>re is a lack <strong>of</strong><br />
recent records, old walls. Some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old records <strong>for</strong> Polypodium vulgare may be referable to<br />
this species.<br />
Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf.<br />
Annual Beard-grass<br />
National Status: Nationally Scarce, not<br />
threatened<br />
County Status: <strong>Rare</strong> (2 sites, 2 tetrads)<br />
Site Grid Reference Last Record<br />
Orton Pit SSSI (CP), entrance TL16669472 2011 (DB)<br />
Meadow Lane Gravel Pits TL329712 2002 (NM)<br />
This species is believed to be restricted as a native to <strong>the</strong> coasts <strong>of</strong> south and eastern<br />
England from Dorset to North Norfolk (Cope & Gray, 2009). Our populations are not a vast<br />
distance from <strong>the</strong> East Anglian coast and have found an alternate niche on sparsely<br />
vegetated substrates associated with old clay and gravel workings.<br />
Polystichum setiferum (Forsk.) Woynar<br />
S<strong>of</strong>t Shield-fern<br />
National Status: Not scarce, not threatened County Status: <strong>Rare</strong> (2 sites, 2 tetrads)<br />
Site Grid Reference Last Record<br />
Brampton Wood SSSI TL175704 2004 (TW & SW)<br />
Waresley Wood SSSI TL263546 2010 (DB)<br />
This fern has always been rare in <strong>Huntingdonshire</strong> and only a few plants are known at each<br />
site, growing on <strong>the</strong> banks <strong>of</strong> small woodland streams. The only o<strong>the</strong>r site where it has been<br />
recorded is Holme Fen and it was last seen <strong>the</strong>re in 1846.