Flora of New Zealand Series

Plants (9.5)-15-50 cm. Leaf-sheath straw-coloured to light greenish brown or grey-brown, sometimes purplish. Panicle (3)-6-17 × 0.5-2.5-(11) cm; branches scabrid, acute-angled. Lemma apex minutely ciliate-scabrid, subobtuse to obtuse, midnerve not excurrent. Palea keels scabrid in upper ½ - ⅔, reaching only to apex.

Cook Strait (The Brothers); S.: at scattered localities on the eastern and southern coasts from Banks Peninsula to Riverton; St. In salt marshes and on saline ground in estuaries; also on sandy and stony ground at high tide level.

Endemic.

Allan and Jansen (1939 op. cit. p. 266) treated Poa walkeri Kirk as a nomen nudum; Kirk's diagnosis distinguishes this taxon from other puccinelliae in N.Z.