| Poa stenantha Trin. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Poa flavicans Ledeb., Poa acutiglumis Scribn. | ||
| Description | Tufted, glabrous or essentially so; basal leaves short, narrow; ligules long; panicle oblong, open in age; lowest panicle branches 2-3 together, slender, scabrous, naked below; spikelets lanceolate, 3—6-flowered; glumes ovate-lanceolate, much shorter than spikelet; lemmas rounded on back, oblong-lanceolate, acute, broadly scarious- margined at top, with white hairs on keel and marginal nerve. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows. Described from Kamchatka (where it does not occur), Unalaska, and Sitka. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Much misunderstood; circumpolar map tentative. Viviparous specimens often occur. |
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.