Common name: Rock Poa, Rock Poa
Poa saxicola R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Glabrous, densely caespitose perennial to 1 m high, with erect shoots from a vertical or oblique rootstock.
Leaves with sheath firm, usually smooth, open; ligule firmly membranous, 1–4.5 mm long, truncate; blade usually expanded but folded when dry, 2–4 mm wide when expanded, smooth or somewhat scabrous, striate.
Panicles contracted, linear, c. 6–15 cm long, branches short, erect. Spikelets turgid, c. 7 mm long, 2–4-flowered. Glumes 3.5–5 mm long, sparsely scabrous on the keels above, acute or obtuse, lower 1–3-nerved, upper 3-nerved. Lemmas 4–5.5 mm long, glabrous on the back, 5-nerved, sometimes the midnerve produced as a mucro to 0.5 mm long; web absent. Palea densely ciliate upwards.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in subalpine meadows and herbfields at high elevations; south from the Brindabella Ra.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Sometimes treated as Saxipoa saxicola (R.Br.) Soreng, L.J.Gillespie & S.W.L.Jacobs.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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