| Poa merrilliana Hitchc. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa glacialis Scribn. & Merr. | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose, glabrous; leaves 3-4 mm broad, flat, glabrous; pale green, abruptly acute; panicle open, with few large, purple spikelets at end of flexuous branches; ligules about 2 mm long; glumes unequal, broadly lanceolate, 3-nerved; lemmas 5-nerved, not webbed at base, pubescent on keel and marginal nerve; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A doubtful species known only from Hubbard Glacier, Yakutat Bay. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.