Poa clivicola Vickery. Contr.
New South Wales Natl Herb. 4: 213 (1970).
Classification.
(GPWG 2001) : Subfamily Pooideae. Tribe Poeae.
Type of Basionym or
Protologue Information: Australia: New South Wales: Kosciusko Plateau: jct.
of Wragge's and Piper's Creeks: 9 Jan 1956, J.Vickery & M. E. Phillips
(HT: NSW 46029).
Key references (books
and floras): [2002] D.Sharp & B.K.Simon, AusGrass, Grasses of
Australia, [2008] S.W.L.Jacobs, R.D.B.Walley & D.J.B.Wheeler, Grasses
of New South Wales (349), [2009] A.Wilson (ed.). Flora of Australia,
Vol 44A. Poaceae 2 (322).
Illustrations:
[2008] S.W.L.Jacobs, R.D.B.Whalley & D.J.B.Wheeler, Grasses of New South
Wales, 4th edn (349).
Habit.
Perennial. Culms stature slender to delicate, 15–60 cm tall, 1–2 -noded.
Mid-culm internodes glabrous. Mid-culm nodes glabrous. Lateral branches simple.
Leaves mostly basal. Leaf-sheaths smooth or scaberulous, glabrous on surface.
Ligule a fringed membrane, a ciliolate membrane, 0.4–1.5 mm long, abaxially
glabrous or abaxially scaberulous, truncate. Leaf-blades erect, filiform,
involute, 3–15 cm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface scaberulous,
glabrous.
Inflorescence.
Inflorescence compound, a panicle. Panicle elliptic, effuse, 2–12 cm long.
Spikelets.
Spikelets pedicelled. Fertile spikelets many flowered, with at least 2 fertile
florets (2–7), comprising 2–7 fertile floret(s), with diminished florets at the
apex, oblong, laterally compressed, 3.8–8 mm long.
Glumes. Glumes
similar. Lower glume lanceolate, membranous, keeled, 1-keeled, 3 -nerved. Upper
glume lanceolate, 2.6–3 mm long, membranous, keeled, 1-keeled, 1–3 -nerved.
Upper glume surface smooth or asperulous.
Florets.
Fertile lemma 3–4 mm long, keeled, 5 -nerved. Lodicules present. Anthers 3.
Continental
Distribution: Australasia.
Australian
Distribution: New South Wales, Victoria.
New South Wales:
Southern Tablelands. Victoria: East Gippsland, Snowfields.
Notes. Endemic.
S from Barrington Tops. Open eucalypt woodland, swampy plain, open grassland,
frost hollows, apparently usually in wet sites. Flowers Dec.-Feb. Fruits Feb.-.
