Melica Frutescens
''Melica frutescens'', the woody melicgrass, is a species of Poaceae, grass found in Arizona and California in the United States and in Mexico. Description The species is perennial plant, perennial and have culm (botany), culms that are long and woody. The species' lateral branches are sparse with leaf-sheaths being scabrous, tubular and closed. It leaf-blades are wide. It panicle is contracted, linear, and is long with filiform pedicel (botany), pedicels that are located on fertile spikelet. The main branches are appressed and carry oblong and solitary spikelets that are long. They are comprised out of 3–6 fertile florets which are diminished at the apex. It sterile florets are barren, oblong, growing in a Sessility (zoology), clump and are long. The species' fertile lemma (botany), lemma is chartaceous, keelless, oblong and is long. Both lower and upper glumes are chartaceous, elliptic and keelless with acute apexes. Their size is different though; Lower glume is long w ...
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