Common name: Bulbous Poa
Poa bulbosa L. APNI* 
Description: Tufted bulbous-based perennials to c. 50 cm tall, the bulbous portions elongate-conical or pear-shaped, the shoots intravaginal. Culms erect or geniculate-ascending or spreading, slender, smooth, unbranched, 2–4-noded.
Sheaths glabrous and smooth; ligule membranous, acute to acuminate, 2–8 mm long; blade narrow, flat or folded or the margins inrolled, linear, 1–10 cm long, mostly 1–2.5 mm wide, glabrous, ± smooth, thin.
Inflorescence usually dense, ovate or oblong, c. 2–6 cm long, branches ± erect. Spikelets ovate to broadly oblong, 3–5 mm long, 3–6-flowered, variegated. Glumes keeled, acute to finely acuminate, 1–3-nerved. Lemmas acute, obscurely 5-nerved, strongly keeled; palea mostly scabrous. At times part of the spikelet above the glumes is replaced by a miniature vegetative shoot, which, under favourable conditions, may fall, take root and serve as a vegetative propagule.
Flowering: Flowers in spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open grassland and disturbed ground. Native of Mediteranean region and Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *SWP
Text by Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B.
Taxon concept: Grasses of New South Wales, Fourth Edition (2008).
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