Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Poa lindsayi Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 340 (1864)
Vernacular Name(s):
Lindsay's poa
 Description

Small, delicate grey-green or blue-green, rarely reddish perennial tufts, 5–40 cm, with densely packed wiry, short and curved, or longer and erect leaves usually « culms; branching intravaginal, with a few extravaginal shoots at plant base; leaf-blades persistent. Leaf-sheath very pale brown, often purplish, membranous, distinctly ribbed, minutely scabrid abaxially, occasionally smooth. Ligule 0.2–0.7 mm, truncate, erose, glabrous throughout. Leaf-blade 0.5–1.5–(5) cm × 1–1.5–(3) mm, usually fine and folded, adaxially with minute scattered prickle-teeth, abaxially smooth, but midrib scabrid near naviculate tip; margins inrolled, sparingly scabrid. Culm (1.5)–5–15–(40) cm, very slender, purplish, usually bearing 2 small cauline leaves, internodes glabrous. Panicle 1.5–6.5–(8) cm, open; rachis glabrous, branches capillary, sometimes flexuous, very minutely scabrid with prickle-teeth scarcely visible except at high magnification, with rather few spikelets, clustered 2–3 at branch tips. Spikelets 1.5–4.5 mm, (1)–3–5–(6)-flowered, silvery purple-green. Glumes subequal, 1–2 mm, with wide hyaline margins, midnerve slightly scabrid in upper ½ or near tip; lower narrower, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1–(3)-nerved, upper ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved, sometimes with a few prickle-teeth on margins and on lateral nerves above. Lemma 1–2 mm, 5-nerved, ovate, obtuse, covered almost throughout or for c. ⅔ length with long, appressed, silky hairs, c. 0.2 mm, midnerve scabrid and internerves glabrous near membranous tip. Palea 1–2 mm, keels long-ciliate, interkeel with appressed hairs, flanks with some hairs. Callus glabrous. Rachilla to 0.5 mm, with scattered long hairs or almost glabrous. Lodicules 0.2–0.4 mm. Anthers 0.2–0.5 mm. Gynoecium: ovary 0.3–0.5 mm; stigma-styles 0.7–1 mm. Caryopsis c. 1 × 0.5 mm. 2n= 28. Plate 7F.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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.
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.