Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Poa L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Poa anceps subsp. polyphylla (Hack.) Edgar, New Zealand J. Bot. 24: 452, Fig 22 (1986)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Poa polyphylla Hack., Trans. New Zealand Inst. 35: 383 (1903)
  • ≡ Poa anceps var. polyphylla (Hack.) Zotov, Trans. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 73: 236 (1943)
  • = Poa polyphylla f. compacta Hack., Trans. New Zealand Inst. 35: 383 (1903)
 Description

Loose tufts, with trailing culms, equalled or overtopped by numerous dull green leaves. Leaf-sheath glabrous. Leaf-blade 6.5–20 cm × 1–2.5 mm, adaxially densely minutely papillose or glabrous, minutely pubescent-scabrid just above ligule; margins sparsely ciliate near ligule and scabrid near tip. Culm (7)–20–30–(70) cm. Panicle (3.5)–5–15 cm, contracted, ± oblong, with few, stiff, erect branches, or slightly more open with finer branches. Spikelets 4.5–5.5 mm, 3–4-flowered. Lower glume 2–3.5 mm, (1)–3-nerved. Lemma 5-nerved, acute or occasionally apiculate, internerves glabrous. Anthers c. 1.5 mm. Caryopsis c. 1.5 × 0.5 mm. 2n= 28.

[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Poa polyphylla Hack.] [Naturally uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [as Poa polyphylla Hack.] [Naturally Uncommon]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [as Poa polyphylla Hack.] [Naturally Uncommon]
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Edgar, E.; Connor, H.E. 2010: Flora of New Zealand Volume V Grasses. Edition 2. Manaaki Whenua Press.
Häckel, E. 1903: On New Species of Grasses from New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 35: 377–385.
Zotov, V.D. 1943: Certain Changes in the Nomenclature of New Zealand Species of Gramineae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 73: 233–238.