Melica secunda
Melica secunda, is a species of grass that can be found in China (Gansu, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang), Afghanistan, and Kashmir, Pakistan. Description. The species is perennial and tufted, with creeping rhizomes. It culms are long and wide while it leaf-sheaths are smooth and glabrous. Leaf-blades are flat and are long by wide. Branches are erect and are long. It have cylindrical ligule which is long with it spikelets being broadly ovate and long. The species have 3 fertile florets which are separated by plant stems each of which is about long. It glumes are broadly elliptic , subacute, and are hyline on the margins and at the tip. The lower glume is long while the upper is long. The species' lemma of fertile floret elliptic to oblong and is long. Lemma is also obtuse or subacute, 7-nerved, hairless and scaberulous. The species' anthers are 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 . The flowers bloom from May to August.