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VicFlora Flora of Victoria

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Poa
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Poa phillipsiana

Vickery Blue Snow-grass

Contr. New South Wales Natl Herb. 4: 220 (1970)

Taxonomic status Accepted

Occurrence status Present

Establishment means Native

Degree of establishment Native

Tufted, glaucous perennial, culms erect, to c. 60 cm high, often purplish. Leaves scabrous; sheath usually purplish; blade inrolled-terete, firm but hardly rigid, to c. 15(–25) cm long and c. 0.7 mm diam., indistinctly nerved; ligule truncate, firmly membranous, 0.2–0.6 mm long. Inflorescence a more or less pyramidal panicle, 5–18 cm long. Spikelets 3–6-flowered, 4–5.1 mm long, often purplish; glumes subequal, 3-nerved, 1.7–3.2 mm long; lemma prominently 5-nerved, 2.6–3.5 mm long, sparsely to densely short-pubescent in the lower half; web weakly developed or absent. Flowers Jan.– Mar.

EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Also NSW. Locally common in drier alpine and subalpine grasslands (e.g. Mts Wellington, Howitt, Buffalo, Dargo, Bogong and Nunniong High Plains, Cobberas Mtns etc.), but often also occurring within Eucalyptus pauciflora woodlands and extending to lower altitudes than most of the other Victorian `Snow-grasses' (e.g. Beloka Range, Mt Seldom Seen near Wulgulmerang).

Source:

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.

Updated by: Neville Walsh, 15 May 2016

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