Appearance
The species is perennial and caespitose with elongated rhizomes. It culms are erect 15–50 centimetres long. The leaf-sheaths are smooth, tubular and have one closed end. The leaf-blades are flat and are 5–15 centimetres long by 2–4 millimetres wide while the membrane is eciliatd and is 0.5–3 millimetres long. Both leaf-sheaths and leaf-blades have glabrous surface. The panicle is linear, spiciform, secund and is 3.5–12 centimetres long.Spikelets are cuneate, solitary, are 5.5–10 millimetres long and have fertile spikelets that are pediceled. Its lemma have hairs that are 4–5 millimetres long. It is also have an acute apex with the fertile lemma itself being chartaceous, elliptic, keelless, and is 4–7.5 millimetres long. The species also carry 2–3 sterile florets which are barren, cuneate, clumped and are 2 millimetres long. Both the upper and lower glumes are oblong, keelless, and are membranous. Their size is different though; lower one is 2.5–6.5 millimetres long while the upper one is 5.5–10 millimetres long. It palea is 2-veined.
Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, have 2 lodicules and grow together. They have 3 anthers with fruits that are caryopsis. The fruit is also have additional pericarp with a linear hilum.
Habitat
"Melica persica" grows on grassy hillsides and stony ones too.References:
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