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Melica nutans L.

Flora Europaea the original Linnean specimen           A nemoral species, quite hard to be distinguished from the closely related Melica picat K. Koch (the ligula of the first very short, unde 0.5 mm, in the second ovate, 1-2,5 mm long). Details of this with the first species here and about the second here, both sets of photographs from the Czech Republic. Deva, Hunedoara county, 28th of April 2007. dr. Ioan Ghira, ighira2002@yahoo.com