Family: Poaceae
Poa rodwayi
Citation:
Vick., Contr. N.S.W. natn. Herb. 4:235 (1970).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Green to greyish-white tufted perennial, 25-60 cm high, rarely forming rhizomes; leaf blades fine and convolute, 8-30 cm long, densely scabrous-pubescent to scabrous.
Panicle somewhat loosely contracted or at length spreading, 5-15 cm long; spikelets 3-5-flowered; glumes rather short; lemmas 2.5-3.5 mm long, usually loosely pubescent on the internerves with longer and denser hairs on the keel and at the base of the lateral nerves and margins; web sparse or obsolete.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SE. ?Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Closest, in S.Aust., to P. morrisii. Vickery stated "Some of the most densely hairy specimens approach forms of P. morrisii, but the closely convolute leaves usually serve to distinguish it".
Author:
Not yet available
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