Poa lowanensis
Tufted or shortly rhizomatous perennial, culms erect, to c. 90 cm high. Leaves as in P. poiformis, but blades generally no longer than c. 50 cm, and usually less than half as high as the culm. Inflorescence to c. 25 cm long and all branches contracted or the lower sometimes spreading and usually bare of spikelets in the lower half. Spikelets 3–6-flowered, 5–7 mm long, usually dappled purple and brownish; glumes 3-nerved, subequal or the lower slightly shorter, c. three-quarters as long as the adjacent lemma; lemma c. 4 mm long, rather broad, very obtuse, pubescent on the back in the lower half, rarely the internerves glabrous, the keel often long-hairy near the base; web copious. Flowers Oct.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, RobP, GipP, NIS. Apparently endemic in Victoria. Known from mallee-scrub or Triodiatussock grassland, on deep sands in the north-west of the state (e.g. near Hattah and in Wyperfeld National Park), but uncommon to rare.
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.
