Melica grandiflora Koidz.

Mélique penchée (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Melica

Characteristics

Perennial, with slender creeping rhizomes. Culms 20–60 cm, 1–2 mm in diam. Leaf sheaths keeled, keel broadly winged, wing margin scabrid, otherwise smooth, glabrous or pubescent at junction with blade, lower sheaths purplish; leaf blades flat, thin, 6–15 cm × 2–5 mm, abaxial surface smooth, adaxial surface puberulent or scaberulous, transverse veinlets present; ligule 0.2–0.7 mm. Panicle lax, 3–10 cm, racemelike, 1-sided, erect (not nodding); spikelets 3–12, mostly borne in pairs or singly directly on main axis, lowest branch sometimes bearing 2 or 3 spikelets. Spikelets ovate, 7–10 mm, pale green or infrequently glumes pale purplish, fertile florets 2(or 3), terminal sterile lemmas gathered into globular cluster; glumes subequal, ovate, margins broadly membranous, lower glume 4–6 mm, 3–7-veined, upper glume 5–7 mm, 5–7-veined, both obtuse; lemmas lanceolate-oblong, lowest 6–10 mm, leathery, prominently 7–9-veined, additional intermediate veins in lower half, scaberulous or puberulous, apex obtuse; palea keels ciliolate. Anthers 1.2–1.7 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr–Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Distribution

Melica grandiflora world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:408015-1
WFO ID wfo-0000879197
COL ID 72YPX
BDTFX ID 41718
INPN ID 107862
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Synonyms

Melica grandiflora Melica komarovii Melica nutans subsp. grandiflora Melica nutans var. argyrolepis