Mediterranean pearl grass
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The Mediterranean pearl grass ( Melica minuta ) is a species from the genus of pearl grass ( Melica ) and belongs to the sweet grass family .
description
The Mediterranean pearl grass forms loose lawns, its stalks are 10 to 100 cm high and are slender and smooth. The leaves are rolled up 1 to 4 mm wide, but spread out up to 8 mm wide; the leaf sheaths are glabrous. The ligule is up to 5 mm long and truncated or split. The panicle is loose, 4 to 10 cm long and often has protruding branches. The spikelets are 5 to 9 mm long, sometimes nodding and have 2 fertile flowers. The glumes are ovate-lanceolate, but unequal in size and often brown-purple; the lower glume is membranous in the upper half. The lemmas of the fertile flowers are nine to eleven-nerved.
The chromosome number is 2n = 18 or 36. The Mediterranean pearl grass blooms between April and July.
Occurrence
The Mediterranean pearl grass is a species of the Mediterranean region; it occurs in southern Europe, in north Africa and in the Middle East. It grows there in crevices, rock corridors and sparse forests.
etymology
The word "minuta" is Latin and means "small".
literature
- Thomas Gaskell Tutin : Melica L. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones) . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20108-X , pp. 178–179 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Peter Schönfelder, Ingrid Schönfelder: The new cosmos of Mediterranean flora. Over 1600 species and 1600 photos (= KosmosNaturführer ). Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-10742-3 , pp. 408 .
- Peter Hadland Davis : Melica. In: Peter Hadland Davis (Ed.): Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 9 (Juncaceae to Gramineae) . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85224-516-5 , pp. 530 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Melica minuta. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 7, 2016.