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As classified in WFO snapshot

June 2025

latest classification for this taxon

genus

Poa L.

This genus name was first published in Sp. Pl. : 67 (1753)

At the time of this classification snapshot, this genus name was accepted by WFO (placed as the accepted name of a taxon). Its description and other taxonomic data can be found on World Flora Online, id: wfo-4000030438.

Literature

Gillespie, L., Archambault, A., & Soreng, R. (2007). Phylogeny of Poa (Poaceae) Based on trnT–trnF Sequence Data: Major Clades and Basal Relationships. Aliso, 23(1), 420–434. https://doi.org/10.5642/aliso.20072301.33
Sp. Pl. 1: 67. 1753 [1 May 1753]

Statistics

Synonyms of Poa

Name	Author	Protologue	WFO link
Anthochloa	Nees & Meyen	Observ. Bot. 2: 14 (1835)	wfo-4000002433
Aphanelytrum	Hack.	Oesterr. Bot. Z. 52: 12 (1902)	wfo-4000002614
Austrofestuca	(Tzvelev) E.B.Alexeev	Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. , n.s., 81(5): 55 (1976)	wfo-4000003727
Dasypoa	Pilg.	Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 25: 716 (1898)	wfo-4000010837
Dissanthelium	Trin.	Linnaea 10: 305 (1836)	wfo-4000012194
Eremopoa	Roshev.	Fl. URSS 2: 756 (1934)	wfo-4000013732
Graminastrum	E.H.L.Krause	Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 32(2): 348 (1914)	wfo-4000016122
Libyella	Pamp.	Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1925: 151 (1925)	wfo-4000021673
Lindbergella	Bor	Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 63: 368 (1969)	wfo-4000021827
Lindbergia	Bor	Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 62: 467 (1968)	wfo-4000021829
Neuropoa	Clayton	Kew Bull. 40: 728 (1985)	wfo-4000026044
Ochlopoa	(Asch. & Graebn.) H.Scholz	Ber. Inst. Landschafts Pflanzenökol. Univ. Hohenheim Beih. 16: 58 (2003)	wfo-4000026474
Panicularia	Heist. ex Fabr.	Enum. : 207 (1759)	wfo-4000027879
Parodiochloa	C.E.Hubb.	Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 8: 395 (1981)	wfo-4000028233
Phalaridium	Nees & Meyen	Gramineae : 29 (1841)	wfo-4000029095
Stenochloa	Nutt.	Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4: 25 (1848)	wfo-4000036490
Tovarochloa	T.D.Macfarl. & But	Brittonia 34: 478 (1982)	wfo-4000038650
Tzvelevia	E.B.Alexeev	Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. , n.s., 90(5): 103 (1985)	wfo-4000039689
Poagris	Raf.	Fl. Tellur. 1: 18 (1837)	wfo-4000048326

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