Family: Poaceae
Poa umbricola
Citation:
Vick., Contr. N.S. W. natn. Herb. 4:194 (1970).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Rather straggling leafy perennial, with the culms branching upwards with fascicles of shoots, perhaps often laxly stoloniferous; leaf blades 2-15 cm long, flat or loosely inrolled, firm but not rigid, smooth below, minutely scaberulous above.
Panicle at length spreading with slender branches; spikelets compressed, 3- or 4-flowered, greenish to purplish, c. 3.5 mm long; glumes 3-nerved; lemmas c. 2.5-3 mm long, often glabrous; web scanty or absent.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov., Dec.
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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:
On its affinities Vickery stated: "The straggling branching habit of this species, together with the generally narrower and more attenuate blades and usually glabrous lemmas seem to distinguish this species from P. clelandii. The coarser, firmer foliage and apparent lack of extravaginal aerial shoots serves to differentiate it from the more delicate P. tenera".
Author:
Not yet available
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