Melica transsilvanica
Melica transsilvanica is a species of grass found in Europe and temperate Asia, including Caucasus and China.
Description
The species is perennial and caespitose with elongated rhizomes. It culms are long with tubular leaf-sheaths which are closed on one of their lengths. Eciliate membrane of the ligule is long. Leaf-blades are convolute and are long by wide. They also have scaberulous surface and are rough on both sides.The panicle itself is dense, open, linear, and is long by wide. The nodes are whorled and are long. Fertile spikelets are comprised out of 1 fertile floret which is diminished at the apex. They are also pediceled, the pedicels of which are long with spikelerts themselves being oblong and long.
Fertile lemma is chartaceous, elliptic, keelless and is long. It margins are ciliated while it apex is obtuse. Sterile florets are barren, clumped, cuneate, and grow 2–3 in number. Both the lower and upper glumes are oblong, keelless, membranous, have erosed apexes, and are 5-veined. Their size is different though; Lower glume is long, while the upper one is long. Palea is 2-veined with flowers being fleshy, oblong and truncate. They also have 2 lodicules, and grow together with their 3 anthers which have fruits that are caryopsis and have an additional pericarp with linear hilum.