Citation: Nees, London. J. Bot. 2:418 (1843).

Synonymy: -P. nodosa Nees in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 2:105 (1846).

Common name: Shaking grass, knotted poa.

Description:
Perennial, with a short creeping branching rhizome, the tips of its branches developing into culms, some of the lower internodes swollen to form nodules; culms 25-80 cm high, erect or geniculate; leaf blades flat or becoming folded, 8-30 cm long; sheaths glabrous.

Panicle with spreading branches or somewhat contracted, more or less lanceolate or subpyramidal in outline, to 20 cm long, branches at length spreading, to 11 cm long, usually bare for rather more than half their length; spikelets plump, lightly to strongly laterally compressed, lanceolate-ovate when young, very broadly oblong-ovate when mature, usually 7-12 mm long; glumes 2-6 mm long; lemmas 3-6 mm long, 5- (rarely to 7-) nerved, variously hairy; web usually absent.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

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