Puccinellia stricta(Hook.f.) C.H.Blom

WFO wfo-0000895507 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. a Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-29 / obs. 133045016
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Alice Shanks
fig. b Alice Shanks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31475065
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Alice Shanks
fig. c Alice Shanks, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30423520
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. d Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 6299267
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. e Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 6183537
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. f Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2700555
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. g Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1523228
Puccinellia stricta, photographed by Nina Kerr
fig. h Nina Kerr, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169554814

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Puccinellia stricta is native: New Zealand North, New Zealand South, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia New Zealand NorthNew Zealand SouthSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoriaWestern Australia
Native distribution of Puccinellia stricta, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New Zealand North NZN AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand South NZS
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

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 10 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.

  • Atropis stricta (Hook.f.) Hack.
  • Atropis stricta var. suborbicularis Hack.
  • Festuca syrtica (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
  • Glyceria stricta Hook.f.
  • Glyceria tenuispica Steud.
  • Panicularia syrtica (F.Muell.) Kuntze
  • Poa syrtica F.Muell.
  • Puccinellia stricta f. luxurians Allan & Jansen
  • Puccinellia stricta f. pumila Allan & Jansen
  • Puccinellia stricta var. suborbicularis (Hack.) Allan & Jansen

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. 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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