Poa hookeri Vickery APNI* 
Description: Caespitose perennials with rather short, soft, subflaccid, capillary leaves and intravaginal innovations. Culms very slender, smooth to loosely scabrous-hispid or scabrous, 1–2-noded, up to 50 cm tall.
Sheaths scabrous; ligule membranous, 1–4.5 mm long, acute to long-acuminate; blade 3–15 cm long, inrolled, capillary, rather delicate, loosely hispid or shortly scabrid.
Inflorescence 3–10 cm long, loosely contracted or at length spreading. Spikelets rather small, 4–5-flowered. Glumes acute, 1–3-nerved. Lemmas obtuse, lightly pubescent, web absent; palea minutely scabrous on the keels above.
Flowering: Flowers in summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows at high altitudes; not common.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
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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