Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:130 (1873).

Synonymy: Glyceria fordeana (F. Muell.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 7:657 (1878).

Common name: Forde poa, sweet swamp-grass.

Description:
Perennial with creeping rhizomes giving rise to shoots singly or in loose fascicles; culms often curved and ascending at the base, 20-100 cm high, occasionally branched from the lower nodes; leaf blades flat, thin, erect or gently spreading, 5-30 cm long.

Panicle 6-45 cm long, at first contracted and linear, at maturity narrowly or broadly oblong to pyramidal-acute, with the branches and spikelets divaricately spreading or somewhat reflexed; spikelets linear to linear-lanceolate, moderately compressed, usually 5-8-flowered, 5-11 mm long, usually greenish or straw-coloured; glumes often c. 1-4 mm long; lemmas often c. 4 mm long, 5-nerved with the nerves fairly evident, usually more or less woolly-hairy on the back in the lower part; web obsolete.

Distribution:  Grows in inland wet situations. S.Aust.: LE, FR, EA, EP, MU, SL.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Dec. and 1 record for June.

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

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