Poa pratensis subsp. pratensis Fig. 7

Economics.

frequent, often seeded for lawns, pastures and soil stabilisation, mainly as the "field form" in subsp. angustifolia .

Voucher.

South Africa. Eastern Cape: Lundeans Nek, top of pass, S30.647517 E27.741630, 2170 m alt., basaltic substrate, Afro-montane grading into Afro-alpine vegetation dominated by short shrubs, 9 Feb 2020, R.J. Soreng et al. ZA-33 (NU, PRE, US).

Notes.

Subspecies pratensis is often confused with subspecies angustifolia, which has denser fascicles of shoots of intravaginal origin and firmer vegetative leaf blades that are involute, with veins distinctly expressed abaxially, in those fascicles. 2 n = 42, 43, 44, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 62, 65, 66, 67, 88, 89, 91, 95 (counts may represent other subspecies, particularly subsp. irrigata).