Dryopoa dives (F.Muell.) Vickery is a plant in the Poaceae family, order Poales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Dryopoa dives (F.Muell.) Vickery

Dryopoa dives (F.Muell.) Vickery

Dryopoa dives is the only known species of the Australian grass genus Dryopoa, native to New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania.

Family
Genus
Dryopoa
Order
Poales
Class
Liliopsida

About Dryopoa dives (F.Muell.) Vickery

Dryopoa, commonly called giant mountain grass, is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family. The only known species in this genus is Dryopoa dives, which is native to the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, and the island state of Tasmania. The genus name Dryopoa translates to tree-grass, and it comes from Greek: the word dryos means tree, and poa means grass.

Photo: (c) Reiner Richter, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Reiner Richter · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Poales Poaceae Dryopoa

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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