Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Poa alpina
Poaceae Barnhart
Poa alpina L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 67 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in alpibus Lapponicis, Helveticis."
Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 192 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: A widespread taxon recorded as a "naturalized alien" by A.J.Ewart Vict. Naturalist 24: 192 (1908), but does not appear to have persisted as a naturalised plant in Australia.
Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 338 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "This species was recorded for Vic. by A.J.Ewart (Victorian Naturalist 24: 192, 1908) on the basis of a specimen purportedly collected by C.Walter at the "Snowy River, 1904". There are no specimens at MEL supporting this record (or any other Poaceae collected by Walter from the Snowy R. area). There are numerous species reported by Ewart as naturalised or native members of the Victoria flora on meagre and/or dubious evidence (see under Poa nemoralis)."