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'''''Melica persica''''' is a species of [[Poaceae|grass]] that can be found in [[Central Asia]], [[India]],<ref name=kew>{{cite web|url=http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp06173.htm|author1=W.D. Clayton |author2=M. Vorontsova |author2-link=Maria Vorontsova (botanist)|author3=K.T. Harman |author4=H. Williamson |title=''Melica persica''|publisher=GrassBase|work=The Board of Trustees, [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|Royal Botanic Gardens]]|place=[[Kew]]|date=November 16, 2012|access-date=June 21, 2013}}</ref> and in [[Gansu]], [[Jilin]], [[Sichuan]] provinces of [[China]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kunth|title=Melica persica|publisher=Révis. Gramin.|volume=1|page=351|year=1829}}</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
The species is [[perennial plant|perennial]] and caespitose with elongated [[rhizome]]s. It [[culm (botany)|culms]] are erect {{convert|15|–|50|cm}} long. The leaf-sheaths are smooth, tubular and have one closed end. The leaf-blades are flat and are {{convert|5|–|15|cm}} long by {{convert|2|–|4|mm}} wide while the membrane is eciliatd and is {{convert|0.5|–|3|mm}} long. Both leaf-sheaths and leaf-blades have [[glabrousness|glabrous]] surface. The [[panicle]] is linear, spiciform, secund and is {{convert|3.5|–|12|cm}} long.<ref name=kew/><br />
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Spikelets are cuneate, solitary, are {{convert|5.5|–|10|mm}} long and have fertile [[spikelet]]s that are [[pedicel (botany)|pediceled]]. Its lemma have hairs that are {{convert|4|–|5|mm}} long. It is also have an acute apex with the fertile [[lemma (botany)|lemma]] itself being chartaceous, elliptic, keelless, and is {{convert|4|-|7.5|mm}} long. The species also carry 2–3 sterile florets which are barren, cuneate, [[Sessility (zoology)|clumped]] and are {{convert|2|mm}} long. Both the upper and lower [[chaff|glumes]] are oblong, keelless, and are membranous. Their size is different though; lower one is {{convert|2.5|–|6.5|mm}} long while the upper one is {{convert|5.5|–|10|mm}} long. It [[palea (botany)|palea]] is 2-veined.<ref name=kew/><br />
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Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, have 2 [[lodicule]]s and grow together. They have 3 [[stamen|anther]]s with [[fruit]]s that are [[caryopsis]]. The fruit is also have additional pericarp with a linear [[hilum (biology)|hilum]].<ref name=kew/><br />
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==Ecology==<br />
''Melica persica'' grows on grassy hillsides and stony ones too.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=P.H. Davis |author2=R.R. Mill |author3=K. Tan|name-list-style=amp |year=1985|title=Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean Islands|volume=9|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]]|place=[[Edinburgh]], Great Britain}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://archive.today/20130624202251/http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=specie&specie=MELPER ''Melica persica'']<br />
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[[Category:Melica|persica]]<br />
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