Dryopoa dives

Dryopoa is a monotypic genus of herbaceous plants belonging to the Poaceae family. Its only species: Dryopoa dives (F. Muell.) Vickery, is native to southeastern Australia and Tasmania.

Description

It is a perennial plant; tussocks with canes 115-500 cm tall; herbaceous; not branched above; with 4-8 nodes. Culm nodes exposed; glabrous Hollow internodes Uncarinated pods, cylindrical, striated. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate (and long acuminate); broad to narrow, 7-18 (-24) mm wide, flat, without cross ribs;. Persistent and with the ligule as a membrane; not truncated; 6-18 (-20) mm long (striated paste, cartilaginous). Bisexual plants, with bisexual spikelets; with hermaphrodite flowers. The spikelets all alike in sexuality. paniculate inflorescence; open (broadly pyramidal, 20-50 cm long, and up to 50 cm wide), with capillary branchlets (towards the extremities). Inflorescence with axes ending in spikelets.

Taxonomy

Dryopoa dives was described by (F.Muell.) Vickery and published in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 3: 196. 1963.

Etymology

Dryopoa: Generic name from Greek, where dryos means "tree" and poa, "grass".

dives: epithet

Sinonimia

• Festuca dives F.Muell.
• Glyceria dives (F. Muell.) F. Muell. ex Benth.
• Poa dives (F. Muell.) F. Muell.
• Panicularia dives (F.Muell.) Kuntze