Melica virgata Turcz. ex Trin. articles

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This species has unusually short glumes, much shorter than the florets, and is also distinguished by its hirsute lemmas and short, clustered panicle branches. A specimen found in Jiangsu (Nanjing) was presumably a chance introduction.

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bibliographic citation: Flora of China Vol. 22: 217, 221 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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editor: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Description

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Perennial, tufted, old basal sheaths becoming fibrous. Culms wiry, 30–80 cm tall, 0.6–1.4 mm in diam. Leaf sheaths smooth; leaf blades usually rolled, 7–15 cm × 2–4(–6) mm, smooth, abaxial surface green, adaxial surface grayish green; ligule 0.7–1 mm, ca. 1.5 mm lobe on side opposite blade. Panicle linear, 10–25 cm; branches clustered at nodes, erect, flexuous, 1–2 cm, distant or slightly overlapping, bearing 1–5 spikelets. Spikelets ovate-oblong, 3.5–6.5 mm, purple or straw-colored, fertile florets 2 or 3, terminal sterile lemmas gathered into globular cluster; glumes unequal, much shorter than florets, lower glume ovate, 1.5–3.5 mm, 3–5-veined, upper glume broadly lanceolate, 2.5–4.2 mm, 5-veined, both acute; lemmas elliptic-oblong, lowest 3–5 mm, herbaceous, 7-veined, granular-scabrid, usually sparsely hirsute at middle back with stiff, 0.3–0.6 mm hairs along veins, rarely glabrous, apex obtuse or acute; palea as long as lemma, keels scaberulous. Anthers 1–1.8 mm. Fl. and fr. May–Jul.

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bibliographic citation: Flora of China Vol. 22: 217, 221 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source: Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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Gansu, Hebei, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang [Mongolia, Russia (SE Siberia)].

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copyright: Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA

bibliographic citation: Flora of China Vol. 22: 217, 221 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source: Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Habitat

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Stony and grassy mountain slopes, rocky gullies; 1000–3900 m.

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copyright: Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA

bibliographic citation: Flora of China Vol. 22: 217, 221 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source: Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
project: eFloras.org

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Melica virgata

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Melica virgata, is a grass species in the family Poaceae that can be found in China,^[1] Mongolia and Russia (Siberia).^[2]

Description

The species is perennial and tufted, with wiry culms that are 30–80 centimetres (12–31 in) long and 0.6–1.4 millimetres (0.024–0.055 in) in diameter. Its lemma is elliptic and oblong, lowest one of which is 3–5 millimetres (0.12–0.20 in) long. Low glume is ovate and is 1.5–3.5 millimetres (0.059–0.138 in) long while the upper glume is lanceolate and is 2.5–4.2 millimetres (0.098–0.165 in) long. The species spikelets are ovate to oblong, are purple in colour and are 3.5–6.5 millimetres (0.14–0.26 in). Flowers anthers are 1–1.8 millimetres (0.039–0.071 in) long.^[1]