Melica eligulata
Melica eligulata is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.
Description
The species is perennial and is caespitose as well. It culms are long and wide. The leaf-sheaths are smooth, tubular and have one closed end. The leaf-blades are long and wide while the membrane is eciliated and is long. Both leaf-sheaths and leaf-blades have glabrous surface. The panicle is open, dense, linear, nodding and is long. The main panicle branches are ascending and are divided.Spikelets are oblong, solitary and are long. They have fertile spikelets that are pediceled, the pedicels of which are long. Lemma is chartaceous, lanceolated, and is long and wide. Its lemma have an obtuse apex while the fertile lemma itself is chartaceous, keelless, oblong and is long. The species also carry 2–3 sterile florets which are barren, cuneate, clumped and are long. Both the upper and lower glumes are oblong, keelless, and are membranous. Their size is different though; lower one is long while the upper one is long. It palea is 2-veined.
Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, have 2 lodicules and grow together. They have 3 anthers with fruits that are caryopses. The fruit also have additional pericarp with a linear hilum.