| Poa labillardierei Steud. var. labillardierei | Family Poaceae |
Common name: Tussock
Poa labillardierei var. labillardierei Steud. APNI* Description: Coarse, densely caespitose perennial to 1.2 m high, with mostly intravaginal innovations.
Leaves with sheath usually pallid at the base; ligule c. 0.5 mm long, truncate; blade flat or inrolled, to 3.5 mm wide, scabrous, moderately rigid.
Panicle 10–25 cm long, with erect or erectly and loosely spreading branches. Spikelets 3–8-flowered, strongly laterally compressed, c. 4–6 mm long. Glumes 2–3.5 mm long, 1–3-nerved, ± scabrous on the keels. Lemmas 2.5–4.5 mm long, usually hairy on the keel in the lower 50% and on the lateral nerves towards the base, usually glabrous on the internerves; web usually copious, consisting of long hairs. Palea closely scabrous on the keels in the upper 65%.
Flowering: Flowers most of year.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread, occurring throughout the Coastal, Tablelands, Western Slopes and Western Slopes; also Qld, Vic., Tas., and SA. Grows on river flats and moist situations, and in forests, extending up open sheltered slopes.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept:
| The single variety in NSW. Characters and distribution as for the species in NSW. |
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