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|accepted_name=Melica nitens
|accepted_authority=(Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper
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|common_names=Three-flower melic
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Melica;Melica nitens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Meliceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Melica]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Melica nitens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 100
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not or loosely cespitose, shortly rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 55-130 cm, not forming corms; internodes smooth. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or scabridulous; ligules 1-6.5 mm; blades 3.5-11 mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces smooth or scabridulous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 9-26 cm; branches 3.5-6 cm, often divergent to reflexed, straight, with 5-20 spikelets; pedicels sharply bent and hairy below the spikelets; disarticulation below the glumes. <b>Spikelets</b> 8-12 mm, with 2-3(4) bisexual florets, apices of the lowest 2 florets not at the same level; rachilla internodes 2.3-2.4 mm. <b>Glumes</b> unequal; lower glumes 5-9 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm wide, more ovate than the upper glumes, 3-9-veined; upper glumes 6-11 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, 3-7-veined; lemmas 6.5-11.5 mm, glabrous or scabrous, somewhat indurate, with 9+ veins, veins prominent, apices rounded, unawned; paleas about 3/4 the length of the lemmas; anthers 1.7-3.2 mm; rudiments 2-3 mm, clublike, not resembling the bisexual florets, in a straight line with the rachilla. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wis.;W.Va.;N.Mex.;Tex.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Md.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Melica nitens</i> grows in dry to moist woodlands, often in rocky areas with rich soil. It grows primarily from Minnesota to Pennsylvania and southwest to Texas.</p>
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name=Melica nitens
|authority=(Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wis.;W.Va.;N.Mex.;Tex.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Md.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Ky.
|reference=None
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Melica
|species=Melica nitens
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