Melica longiflora
Melica longiflora is a grass species in the family Poaceae that is endemic to Chile where it can be found from Coquimbo to Talca. Description. The species is perennial and is caespitose as well. The culms are either ascended or rambled, are long and in diameter. The leaf-sheaths are tubular, retrorsely scabrous, and are either glabrous or pilose on the bottom. The leaf-blades are aromatic, are long and wide. Just like leaf-sheaths they are scabrous, but unlike them they are hairy, glabrous or pubescent, and are rough on both sides. Their margins are glabrous, scabrous  or ciliated. The panicle is open, pyramidal, and is long. The main panicle branches are contracted and have scaberulous or smooth axis, while the other panicle branches are secund. Spikelets are solitary with fertile spikelets being pedicelled, pedicels of which are ciliated, curved, filiform, scabrous and hairy on top. The spikelets are elliptic, are long, and have 2 fertile florets which are diminished at the apex. Floret callus is pubescent. The upper glume is lanceolated and is long and 0.9 length of the top fertile lemma. Lemma is chartaceous, lanceolated, and is long and wide. Lemma hairs are long with  erose, emarginate or obtuse apex. The bottom of both upper and lower glumes are asperulous but the apexes are different; Lower one is erose, obtuse, or sometimes acute, while the upper one is only acute. The lower glume is ovate and is 5-7 veined while the upper glume is only 5-veined. Palea is scabrous on the bottom and is 2-veined. Flowers are fleshy, ciliate or glabrous, oblong, truncate, and grow together. They are long and have 3 anthers each of which is long. Fruits have caryopsis which also have attached pericarp, are in length and are dark  brown in colour. The hilum is linear and is 1 length of the caryopses. Ecology. "Melica longiflora" can be found growing on hills and central plains in the lower parts of the Andes on the elevation of where similar genera, such as "Eulychnia", "Proustia", "Trichocereus", and species "Acacia caven", "Baccharis linearis", "Lithraea caustica", "Peumus boldus", "Puya chilensis", "Schismus polygamus", and "Trevoa trinervis" can be found as well. The flowers bloom only August to December.