Poa subg. Pseudopoa sect. Pseudopoa (K. Koch) Hack., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(2): 73. 1887.

Gillespie, Lynn J., Soreng, Robert John, Cabi, Evren & Amiri, Neda, 2018, Phylogeny and taxonomic synopsis of Poa subgenus Pseudopoa (including Eremopoa and Lindbergella) (Poaceae, Poeae, Poinae), PhytoKeys 111, pp. 69-102 : 80

Poa subg. Pseudopoa sect. Pseudopoa (K. Koch) Hack., Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(2): 73. 1887.

Emended description.

Tufted annuals. Leaf sheaths keeled, margins fused for 4-12% their length; blades flat to convolute, surfaces scabrous. Panicles open, with (1 –)3– 27 branches at lower nodes, lower whorls sometimes sterile; branches ascending to widely spreading, scabrous angled, with pedicels mostly equalling or up to 4 × longer than their spikelets. Spikelets 1-10-flowered; glumes unequal, 1st glume 1-veined, 2nd glume 3-veined, usually reaching to less than ⅔ the adjacent lemma; rachilla internodes terete, scabrous; callus smooth, glabrous, with a round disarticulation scar; lemmas laterally compressed, weakly keeled, glabrous or short sericeous in lower half of the keel and also along the marginal veins, between veins smooth or scabrous, glabrous (rarely sericeous), 5-veined, intermediate veins obscure to distinct, margins narrowly to broadly scarious, apex obtuse to acuminate, sometimes briefly muticus. Flowers perfect, ovaries glabrous, anthers 0.2-2.8 mm long; caryopsis 1.5-2.5 mm long, narrowly elliptical, laterally compressed, fused to the palea, solid, hilum ⅛-⅙ the grain in length.