Melica montezumae

Melica montezumae, Montezuma melicgrass, is a grass species in the family Poaceae that can be found in Texas and Mexico.

Description
The plant is perennial and is caespitose as well. The culms are 50 – long while the leaf-sheaths scaberulous and tubular. Eciliate membrane is 5 – long. Leaf-blades are either flat or involute and are 2 – wide. Their panicle is open and is 8 – in length. The main panicle branches are ascended or spreadout, while spikelets are pendulous and solitary. Fertile spikelets have filiformed pedicels, are cuneate and are 7 – long. They have 1 fertile floret which is diminished. Fertile lemma is chartaceous and elliptic and is 6 – long. Palea is 2 veined and have scaberulous keels as well. Sterile florets are barren, cuneated, and grow in a clump. Both upper and lower glumes are oblong, scarious and keelless, but the lower one is 7 – in length while the upper one is 6 – long. Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, and are growing side by side with 3 anthers. Fruits are caryopsis and have additional pericarp.

Ecoology
Melica montezumae grows in shady places in the mountains.