Melica secunda

Melica secunda, is a species of grass that can be found in China (Gansu, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang), Afghanistan, and Kashmir.

Description
The species is perennial and tufted, with creeping rhizomes. It culms are 40 – long and 1 - 2 mm wide while it leaf-sheaths are smooth and glabrous. Leaf-blades are flat and are 12 – long by 1.5 – wide. Branches are erect and are 2 mm long. It have cylindrical ligule which is 35 - 55 mm long with it spikelets being broadly ovate and 7 - 8 mm long. The species have 3 fertile florets which are separated by plant stems each of which is about 2 mm long. It glumes are broadly elliptic, subacute, and are hyline on the margins and at the tip. The lower glume is 5.5 mm long while the upper is 6 - 6.5 mm long. The species' lemma of fertile floret elliptic to oblong and is 5 - 5.5 mm long. Lemma is also obtuse or subacute, 7-nerved, hairless and scaberulous. The species' anthers are 1.1 – long.

Ecology
Melica secunda was collected only one time in Kashmir while in Afghanistan the description of which was given by Aitchison as being common there, is found on elevation of 3000 m. The flowers bloom from May to August.