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Poa annua L.

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Poa annua L., Sp. Pl. 68 (1753)
Poa annua L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
68
ICN
Poa annua L.
species
Poa annua

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annua

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Poa annua L.

Loosely to compactly tufted, usually bright green annual, to 35 cm, or short-lived perennial; branching intravaginal; leaf-blades persistent. Leaf-sheath pale green, hyaline, glabrous, keeled. Ligule 0.5-2 mm, entire, rounded, glabrous throughout. Leaf-blade 1.5-9 cm × 3-4 mm, flat or folded, soft, glabrous, often crinkled when young; margins sparsely, minutely scabrid, tip rounded to blunt point. Culm 3-20 cm, erect, spreading or prostrate, internodes glabrous. Panicle 2-10 cm, usually open, erect; branches smooth to sparsely scabrid, spreading to deflexed after anthesis. Spikelets 4-6 mm, with 3-6 crowded florets, light green or sometimes purplish. Glumes ± unequal, glabrous; lower 1.5-2.5 mm, 1-nerved, lanceolate to ovate, acute, upper 2-3 mm, 3-nerved, elliptic to oblong, subobtuse. Lemma 3-3.5 mm, 5-nerved, nerves densely hairy for about ½ length and glabrous above hairs, internerves glabrous, rarely lemma entirely glabrous, purplish just below hyaline band at obtuse tip. Palea 2.5-3 mm, keels long-ciliate, or rarely glabrous, interkeel glabrous. Callus glabrous. Rachilla 0.5-1 mm, glabrous; prolongation much shorter. Lodicules 0.3 mm. Gynomonoecious: each spikelet with 2-3 lower flowers ☿, anthers (0.6)-0.7-1 mm, gynoecium 1-1.5 mm; upper flowers ♀, pollen-sterile anthers to 0.2 mm or 0, gynoecium c. 1.5 mm. Caryopsis c. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, tightly enclosed by anthoecium.

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Poa annua L.
Poa annua L.
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Poa annua L.
Australia
Poa annua L.
Australia
Tasmania
Poa annua L.
France
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Poa annua L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District
Poa annua L.
Norfolk Island
Poa annua L.
United Kingdom
Poa annua L.
United States

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a7a772dd-5e93-4dac-b9df-7279619192a5
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1 January 2000
24 April 2006
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