Plant descriptions ³

Loosely to compactly tufted annual or short-lived perennial; culms 2.5–30 cm. high, erect, spreading or prostrate. Leaf-blades 1-14 cm. long and 1-5 mm. wide, weak, often crinkled when young, blunt at the tip; ligule 2-5 mm. long. Panicle ovate or triangular, 1-12 cm. long, open and loose or somewhat dense. Spikelets 3-10-flowered, ovate or oblong, 3–10 mm. long; lower glume lanceolate to ovate, 1.5-3 mm. long, 3-nerved, broadlest at about the middle ; lemmas broadly elliptic with prominent white hyaline margins, 2,5-4 mm. long, obtuse to emarginate, glabrous or hairy on the nerves; palea-keels glabrous or ciliate; anthers 0,7-1,2(-1,6) mm. long.

Elevation ³

Up to 500 m.

Similar species ³

Syn. Poa bipollicaris ; Poa friesiorum ; Poa glacialis ; Poa kilimanjarica.

Reference ³

W. D. Clayton. 1970. Gramineae (Part 1). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part. 175 p.

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