Poa sp. A (ligulata)
Classification. (GPWG 2001) : Subfamily Pooideae. Tribe Poeae.
Key references
(books and floras): [2002] D.Sharp & B.K.Simon, AusGrass, Grasses of
Australia (as P. sp. A).
Habit.
Perennial. Stolons present. Culms stature slender to delicate, 14–40 cm tall.
Lateral branches simple. Leaves mostly basal. Ligule an eciliate membrane or a
fringed membrane, a ciliolate membrane, 0.8–2.6 mm long, abaxially hairy,
truncate or obtuse. Leaf-blades conduplicate or involute, 4–11.5 cm long,
0.2–0.9(–1.3) mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous.
Inflorescence.
Inflorescence compound, a panicle. Panicle 35–100 cm long.
Spikelets.
Fertile spikelets many flowered, with at least 2 fertile florets (2–7),
comprising 2–7 fertile floret(s), laterally compressed, 2.8–6.2 mm long.
Glumes. Lower
glume 1–3 -nerved. Upper glume 1.7–2.8 mm long, 3 -nerved.
Florets.
Fertile lemma 2.3–3 mm long, keeled, 5 -nerved. Anthers 3.
Continental
Distribution: Australasia.
Australian
Distribution: Victoria.
Notes.
Most closely related to Poa tenera and P. clelandii differing
from the first in the conspicuous pigmentation of the sheath, its tufted habit
and smaller hairy lemma with ciliolate margins. From P. clelandii it
differs in the smaller more slender plant, fully connate sheath (compared with
2/3 connate), broad decurrent ligule (vs. narrow non decurrent), and variable
hairiness of the lemma.
Endemic.
Ballarat area and Brisbane Ra. Natl Park, Vic. Flowers Oct.-Nov. ?.