Melica Cupani
''Melica'' is a genus of perennial grasses known generally as melic or melic grass. They are found in most temperate regions of the world. Melic grasses are clumping to short-rhizome, rhizomatous grasses Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and .... They have culm (botany), flowering culms up to tall bearing spikelets of papery flowers. The spikelets have between one and seven fertile flowers with a rudimentary structure at the distal end composed of one to four sterile florets. Some species of melic have corms, lending them the name oniongrass. The genus is most diverse in South America and temperate Asia. Eight species are endemic to China. In North America, most species occur west of the Mississippi River, with exceptions being ''Melica mutica'' and Melica nitens, ''M ...
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Melica Ciliata
''Melica ciliata'', the hairy melic or silky spike melic, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to Europe, north Africa and temperate Asia. It has been introduced to South Australia. Description The species is a tufted deciduous perennial with elongated rhizomes. It has erect culms which are long. The leaf sheaths are tubular and closed; the ligule is an eciliate membrane. The leaf blades are flat, stiff, and long by wide. Their surface is scabrous and glabrous and the tip is attenuate. The panicle is contracted, reaching in length. The spikelets are cuneate with one fertile floret. The florets are on pedicels. Both the lower and upper glumes lack keels. They are membranous, ovate, long, and 5-veined. The palea have 2-veined, ciliated keels while the fertile lemma is keelless, lanceolate, with an acute apex and ciliated margins. The lemma is long with 7–9 veins. The flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, with two lodicules and three anthe ...
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