Poa poiformis, commonly known as coast tussock-grass or blue tussock-grass, is a densely tufted, erect, perennial tussock grass, with distinctive blue-green leaves, that grows to about 1 m in height. Its inflorescences are arranged in a dense panicle up to 30 cm long. It is native to coastal southern Australia where it occurs along ocean foreshores, estuaries, dunes and cliffs.[5][6]P. poiformis is also found on Kangaroo Island (South Australia) and Lord Howe Island (New South Wales).[2]
^Under its currently accepted binomial of Poa poiformis (from its basionym Arundo poiformis), this plant was published in Report. Botanical Exchange Club. London. Suppl. 2: 640. 1917. "Name - !Poa poiformis (Labill.) Druce". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
^ abIn choosing the scientific name, Druce originally used the spelling poaeformis for the specific epithet. Simon, B.K. & Alfonso, Y. (7 January 2011). "Poa poiformis". AusGrass2. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
^Arundo poiformis, the basionym of Poa poiformis, was originally described and published in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1: 27. 1804. "Name - Arundo poiformis Labill". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
^"Poa". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
^"Poa poiformis". PlantNET. National Herbarium of New South Wales, Sydney. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
^Longmore, Sue; Smithyman, Steve & Crawley, Matt (2010). Coastal Plants of the Bellarine Peninsula. Bellarine Catchment Network.
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