Poa meionectes

Poa meionectes is a small tufted perennial grass in the Poaceae family endemic to southern and southeastern Australia, occurring in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, where it grows in damp grasslands, open woodland margins, montane meadows and rocky slopes on a range of soils. The plant forms slender, loose to dense tussocks 15 to 50 centimetres tall, with erect to slightly geniculate culms arising from a fibrous root system without rhizomes. The narrow, flat to folded leaf blades are 5 to 15 centimetres long and 1 to 3 millimetres wide, with smooth to scabrid surfaces and a short membranous ligule. The inflorescence is an open, pyramidal to oblong panicle 5 to 15 centimetres long with slender, spreading to ascending branches. Spikelets are laterally compressed, ovate to lanceolate, 4 to 7 millimetres long, and contain three to six florets; glumes are unequal and shorter than the lemmas, which are awnless, keeled and bear a tuft of cobwebby hairs at the base typical of Poa. The fruit is a small caryopsis loosely enclosed within the lemma and palea.