Melica ciliata L.
Melica ciliata
Species recognized by The Integrated Taxonomic Information System
, T Orrell (custodian) in 
Retrieving comments, please wait...
Table of Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Add New Content
General Description
Comments
Source and Additional Information
Supplier
Source
Project
Editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
Location
Source URL
Citation
Flora of China Vol. 22: 216, 218 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
Permalink
Copy and paste in email or document
:
This is an extremely variable species, variants differing in the number of culm nodes, degree and position of roughness on the leaves, panicle shape and density, and spikelet color and length. This variation is often partitioned among several ill-defined subspecies. Melica ciliata subsp. taurica has been reported from Xinjiang (as M. taurica). This variant is distinguished by scabrid leaf sheaths, scabrid abaxial surface of leaf blades, and a rather dense, almost cylindrical panicle of many pale green, 4–6 mm spikelets.
References
-
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200005226
Retrieving comments, please wait...
Description
Source and Additional Information
Supplier
Source
Project
Editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
Location
Source URL
Citation
Flora of China Vol. 22: 216, 218 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
Permalink
Copy and paste in email or document
:
Perennial, densely tufted, shortly rhizomatous. Culms 20–80 cm tall, 1–2 mm in diam. Leaf sheaths scabrid with upwardly directed teeth; leaf blades usually rolled, 6–10 cm × 1–4 mm, abaxial (outer) surface smooth or scabrid; ligule 1–4 mm. Panicle spikelike, 2.5–8 cm, dense or rather lax, strongly to indistinctly 1-sided, sometimes lobed below, main axis usually visible. Spikelets 4–8 mm, green or purplish, fertile floret 1, terminal sterile lemmas gathered into globular cluster; glumes ovate, papery, 5-veined, lower glume 3/4–4/5 length of upper, upper glume as long as spikelet, both acute; lemma lanceolate, 2.5–3.2 mm, granular-scaberulous, 7–9-veined, densely ciliate along marginal veins with 2–3 mm hairs, apex acute; palea keels ciliolate. Anthers 0.8–1.5 mm. Fl. May–Jul. 2n = 18.
References
-
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200005226
Retrieving comments, please wait...
Contribute
Explore
"Melica ciliata L.". Encyclopedia of Life, available from "http://www.eol.org/pages/1115021". Accessed
19 Mar 2010.
