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Poa fordeana F.Muell.
Family Poaceae
Poa fordeana F.Muell. APNI*

Description: Perennials with creeping rhizomes. Culms often curved and ascending at the base then erect above, to c. 1 m tall, usually simple, slender to rather stout, strongly compressed, 3–many-noded, striate, scabrous.

Leaves with sheath open above, strongly compressed and keeled, scabrous, striate, thin; ligule thin and membranous, 1–5 mm long, obtuse or almost truncate; blade flat, thin, erect or erectly spreading, 1.5–4 mm wide, prominently nerved.

Inflorescence 6–45 cm long, narrowly to broadly oblong to pyramidal-acute at maturity, branches spreading to somewhat reflexed. Spikelets linear to linear-lanceolate, 3–12-flowered, 5–11 mm long. Glumes acute to obtuse, 3(-5)-nerved. Lemmas 3.5–5 mm long, usually hairy on the lower back, keeled, 5-nerved, web obsolete; palea finely scabrous on the keels above.


Habit
Photo A.E. Orme

Flower
Photo A.E. Orme

Other photo
Photo A.E. Orme

Flowering: Flowers in response to rain and flooding.

Distribution and occurrence: In more or less wet situations such as swamps, river flats and drainage channels in inland districts.
NSW subdivisions: CC, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B.
Taxon concept: Grasses of New South Wales, Fourth Edition (2008).


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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