Poa poiformis var. ramifer

Apart from the ramifying habit there appears to be no reliable characters to separate this from Poa poiformis var. poiformis and it may be that the variation is at least partly ecotypic - occurring when plants are partly buried by mobile sand or when plants are growing in shade.

There has been considerable confusion over the application of this name, sometimes being referred to a fine-leaved coastal grass with an extremely contracted inflorescence, mostly tussock-forming but sometimes ramifying. This latter entity appears to be close to, if not conspecific with P. halmaturina J.M.Black and is tentatively treated as such here. It is more often associated with calcareous sands or shallow silliceous sands overlying basalt.