Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Gramineae Juss.
Genus
Poa L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Poa anceps G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 8 (1786) subsp. anceps
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Poa anceps G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr. 8 (1786) var. anceps
  • = Poa anceps var. α elata Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 306 (1853)
  • = Poa affinis var. α multiflora Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 307 (1853)
  • = Poa affinis var. β agrostoidea Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 307 (1853)
  • = Poa anceps var. β foliosa Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 306 (1853)
  • = Poa anceps var. δ densiflora Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 339 (1864)
  • = Poa anceps var. condensata Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 904 (1906) nom. superfl.
 Description

Very variable in habit, stiff and erect or scrambling and trailing. Leaf-sheath smooth or variably scabrid. Leaf-blade 10–30–(40) cm × 1–6.5 mm, adaxially smooth, or scabrid on ribs, rarely papillose-scabrid, occasionally with fringe of stiff short hairs above ligule; margins smooth or scabrid. Culm (15)–25–50–(70) cm. Panicle c. 10–25 cm, usually open with spreading branches, sometimes contracted. Spikelets (3)–4–7.5 mm, (2)–3–5–(8)-flowered. Lower glume (2)–2.5–3.5–(4.5) mm, 3-nerved. Lemma 5–7-nerved, acute to subobtuse, internerves finely scaberulous throughout, occasionally only minutely papillose. Anthers 1.5–2.5 mm. Caryopsis c. 2 × 0.5 mm. 2n= 28.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
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. [Not Threatened]
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. [Not Threatened]
Edgar, E. 1986: Poa L. in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 24: 425–503.
Forster, J.G.A. 1786: Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus. Dietrich, Göttingen.
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.