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|accepted_name=Melica californica
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|common_names=California melic
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Melica;Melica californica
|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 californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 93
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 50-130 cm, not forming corms; lower nodes strigose; internodes usually smooth, sometimes puberulent below the nodes, lower 2-3 internodes usually swollen. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pilose; ligules 1.5-4 mm; blades 1.5-5 mm wide, strigose on both surfaces. <b>Panicles</b> 4-30 cm; branches 3-6 cm, appressed, straight, with 4-15 spikelets; pedicels straight; disarticulation above the glumes. <b>Spikelets</b> 5-15 mm, with 2-5 bisexual florets; rachilla internodes 1.1-1.6 mm. <b>Lower</b> glumes 3.5-12 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, 3-5-veined; upper glumes 5-13 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, 5-7-veined; lemmas 5-9 mm, glabrous, smooth to scabrous, 7-9-veined, veins inconspicuous, apices rounded to broadly acute, unawned; paleas about 3/4 the length of the lemmas; anthers 3, 1.8-3 mm; rudiments 1.4-3 mm, clublike, not resembling the bisexual florets, truncate to acute. <b>2n</b>= 18.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Melica californica</i> grows from sea level to 2100 m, in a wide range of habitats, from dry, rocky, exposed hillsides to moist woods. Its range extends from Oregon to California. It differs from <i>M. bulbosa</i> in its more obtuse spikelets and less strongly colored lemmas, as well as in not having corms.</p><!--
--><p><i>Melica californica</i> <i></i>var.<i> nevadensis</i> Boyle supposedly differs from <i></i>var.<i> californica</i> in having shorter spikelets (averaging 8, rather than 10, mm), more acute glumes and lemmas, blunter rudiments, and in being restricted to the lower Sierra <i>Nevada</i>; the two varieties intergrade, both morphologically and geographically.</p><!--
--><p>Boyle (1945) obtained vigorous sterile hybrids from crosses between <i>M. californica</i> and <i>M. imperfecta</i>, but found no natural hybrids.</p>
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
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