Poa flabellata(Lam.) Raspail

tussock grass

WFO wfo-0000892323 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Poa flabellata, photographed by Alison Copeland
fig. a Alison Copeland, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-11-05 / obs. 57525789
Poa flabellata, photographed by Alison Copeland
fig. b Alison Copeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57526774
Poa flabellata, photographed by Alison Copeland
fig. c Alison Copeland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57526274
Poa flabellata, photographed by John Brew
fig. d John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32526431
Poa flabellata, photographed by John Brew
fig. e John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32507467
Poa flabellata, photographed by John Brew
fig. f John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32527880
Poa flabellata, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. g Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191291545
Poa flabellata, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. h Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191862697

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Poa flabellata is native: Falkland Is., South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, Argentina South, Chile South Falkland Is.Argentina SouthChile South South GeorgiaTristan da Cunha
Native distribution of Poa flabellata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Falkland Is. FAL ANTARCTICA
South Georgia SGE
Tristan da Cunha TDC
Argentina South AGS SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile South CLS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dactylis caespitosa G.Forst.
  • Dactylis caespitosa J.R.Forst.
  • Festuca antarctica Spreng.
  • Festuca caespitosa (J.R.Forst.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Festuca flabellata Lam.
  • Festuca urvilleana Steud.
  • Parodiochloa flabellata (Lam.) C.E.Hubb.
  • Poa caespitosa (E.Forst.) Speg.
  • Poa controversa Steud.
  • Poa controversa var. minor Steud.
  • Poa forsteri Steud.
  • Sesleria americana Nees ex Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol POFL18. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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