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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Poa clelandii

Citation: Vick., Cont. N.S. W. natn. Herb. 4:193 (1970).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted perennial or occasionally with a short rhizome clothed with firm broad scales; culms to 75 cm high; lower leaf sheaths usually purplish; leaf blades flat, inrolling on drying, to 25 cm long, usually glabrous.

Panicle more or less lanceolate, loosely contracted with erect or nearly spreading branches, to 20 cm long; spikelets 3-5-flowered, purplish, greenish or straw-coloured; glumes c. 1-2 mm long; lemmas 1.75-3 mm long, variably pubescent on the lower part of the back including the internerves.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.


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