Citation: Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 1:397 (1841).

Synonymy: Poa curvula Schrader, Gdtt. Anz. Ges. Wiss. 3:2073 (1821).

Common name: African lovegrass, weeping lovegrass.

Description:
Perennial 30-120 cm high, densely tufted or tussock-forming; basal sheaths pilose to hirsute with appressed hairs, often purple; culms erect or ascending, terete or the lower internodes compressed, simple or branched, usually 3- or 4-noded; leaves glabrous or pilose with tubercle-based hairs; sheaths ciliolate on the margins near the orifice; blades to 30 cm x c. 3 mm, usually convolute, often filiform and curly with capillary apices.

Grain scarcely compressed, oblong-elliptic.

Published illustration: Meredith ( 1955) The grasses and pastures of South Africa, fig. 110.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, GT, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   All mainland States.   Native to southern Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Fig. 884G.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: A valuable pasture grass.

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