''Melica nutans'', known as mountain melick, is a grass species in the family

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, native to European and Asian forests.

Description

The grass has slender creeping

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s. The culms are tall. It

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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

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with the lower one being of which is one length of upper one.

Habitat

It is found at of elevation, in shady and hillside

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References

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