Melica amethystina

Melica amethystina is a grass species in the family Poaceae that can be found in southern Europe.

Description
The species rhizomes are elongated with elected culmes which are 50 - 100 cm long. The leaf-sheaths are tubular while leaf-blades are convolute or flat, stiff, and are 5 – long and 1 – wide. It also has scabrous bottom which can also be glabrous or pilose. The panicle is continuous, contracted, linear, and is 4 – long. The main panicle branches are indistinct and almost racemose. Spikelets are solitary with fertile spikelets being pedicelled, pedicels of which are filiform and puberulous. They also have 2 fertile florets which are diminished at the apex and which are also cuneated and are 8 – long.

Glumes are reaching the apex of florets and are thinner than lemma. Lemma margins are ciliate and hairy on the bottom with obtuse apex. It has 2-veined palea with ciliolated keels. The sterile florets are barren, oblong, grow in clump of 2–3, and are 1.5 mm long. The lower glume is ovate, is 6 – long and is 0.7 – longer than upper glume. The upper glume is as ovate as the lower one and is 8 – long. Both glumes are membranous, are purple in colour, have no keels, and are 5-veined. The apex of the upper glume is either acute or acuminate. Flowers have 3 stamens. Fruits are caryopses with an added pericarp and linear hilum.