Poa rodwayi
VickeryTufted perennial, culms slender, to c. 60 cm high. Leaves scabrous-pubescent to shortly pubescent, often appearing greyish; sheath pale, softly pubescent; blade inrolled-terete, to 30 cm long and 0.8 mm wide, rather stiff, densely and evenly covered with short, stiff, spreading hairs to c. 0.5 mm long; ligule obtuse, firmly membranous, to c. 1 mm long. Inflorescence an open pyramidal panicle, to c. 15 cm long and 8 cm wide. Spikelets 3–5-flowered, usually somewhat purplish; glumes 3-nerved, subequal or the upper distinctly longer, 2–3 mm long; lemma 5-nerved, 2.5–3.5 mm long, shortly hairy on the back in the lower half, usually with longer hairs on the keels; web weakly developed or absent.
Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, HSF, HNF, OtR, VAlp. Also SA, Tas. Known from mainly lowland sites in southern, western and central Victoria (e.g. Casterton, Orford near Port Fairy, Stawell, Anglesea, Inverleigh near Geelong, Hurstbridge and Frankston districts, etc.) with outlying occurrences in the north-east e.g. near Beechworth. Mostly occurring in grassland and grassy woodland communities.
Virtually intermediate between P. morrisii and P. sieberiana var. hirtella, differing from the first in the inrolled-terete leaves, and from the latter by the dense, even, spreading pubescence.
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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