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Poa poiformis

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Wikipedia Abstract

Poa poiformis, commonly known as coast tussock-grass or blue tussock-grass, is a densely tufted, erect, perennial tussock grass, with distinctive blue-green leaves, that grows to about 1 m in height. Its inflorescences are arranged in a dense panicle up to 30 cm long. It is native to coastal southern Australia where it occurs along ocean foreshores, estuaries, dunes and cliffs. P. poiformis is also found on Kangaroo Island (South Australia) and Lord Howe Island (New South Wales).
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Structure [2]  Grass

Predators

Argyrophenga antipodum (common tussock butterfly)[3]
Geitoneura acantha (Ringed Xenica)[3]
Heteronympha merope (Common brown butterfly)[4]
Neophema chrysogaster (Orange-bellied Parrot)[5]

External References

Citations

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1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
5Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0