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Mountain Melick
''Melica nutans'', known as mountain melick, is a grass species in the family Poaceae, native to European and Asian forests. Description The grass has slender creeping rhizomes. The culms are tall. It inflorescence is comprised out of 5–15 fertile spikelets, which are both oblong and compressed, with the length of . They are comprise out of 2-3 fertile florets that are diminished at the apex. The florets are long and are elliptic. Flowers have 3 anthers which are in length. Glumes are thinner than fertile lemma (botany), lemma with the lower one being of which is one length of upper one. Habitat It is found at of elevation, in shady and hillside habitats. References Melica, nutans Flora of Europe Flora of temperate Asia Flora of the Indian subcontinent Grasses of China Grasses of India Grasses of Pakistan Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Pooideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
