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Poa rodwayi
Velvet tussock-grass is a drought-tolerant, cool-season perennial bunchgrass native to southeastern Australia, grown mainly for pasture and restoration of dry grasslands. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and it dislikes heavy grazing.
Poa rodwayi, commonly known as Velvet tussock-grass, is a tussock grass endemic to southeastern Australia. It was described as a separate species in 1966 by Joyce Winifred Vickery in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium. It is commonly found within dry, low-altitude grassland communities with little or no eucalypt cover. The type specimen was collected at Hobart, Tasmania.
Poa rodwayi is endemic to South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, and occurs mostly in dry, lowland grassland and grassy woodland communities. In Tasmania, Poa rodwayi has been observed to either dominate or co-dominate with Themeda triandra and Rytidosperma species on shallow soils over rockplates, where eucalypts and other overstorey species are unable to survive long-term drought conditions.
Poa rodwayi is suitable as a pasture species, particularly as both sheep and cattle fodder, and its form provides shelter for lambs and newly shorn sheep. Its drought resistant qualities allow it to produce consistent growth it but does not provide high quality fodder and will not persist under high grazing pressure.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Poa rodwayi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
