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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

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:  S.Aust.: SE.   ?Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct.


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

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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