Melica brevicoronata

Melica brevicoronata, is a grass species in the family Poaceae that can be found in Brazil, southern South America, and Cerro Pan de Azúcar, Uruguay.

Description
The species is perennial with elongated rhizomes and pilose butt sheaths. Its culms are erect and are 40 – long. Leaf-sheaths are tubular with one of their length being closed. Its eciliate membrane is 0.5 – long with leaf-blades being 10 – long and 1 - 3 mm wide. They also have scabrous bottom, are pubescent and a bit hairy. The panicle is open, is linear and is 10 – long. The main panicle branches are spread out. It spikelets are elliptic, solitary and are 8 – long. Fertile spikelets have ciliated, curved and filiform pedicels.

Margins of lemma are ciliate. The lemma itself though is 1 mm long and have obtuse apex. Fertile lemma is chartaceous and is 5 – long and 2.5 mm wide. Palea have scaberulous keels and surface. Rhachilla is 4 mm in length and is extended. Lower glumes are elliptic and are 8 - 11 mm long while the upper glumes are lanceolate and are 6 – long. Both the lower and upper glumes are obtuse and have asperulous surfaces. Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, and grow together, the 3 anthers of which are 1 - 2 mm in length. Fruits are brown coloured, ellipsoid and have an additional pericarp and are 3 mm long with linear hilum.