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|accepted_name=Melica harfordii
|accepted_authority=Bol.
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|common_names=Harford melic
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|name=Melica harfordii var. viridifolia
|authority=unknown
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|name=Melica harfordii var. tenuis
|authority=unknown
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|name=Melica harfordii var. minor
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Melica;Melica harfordii
|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 harfordii]]</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>cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 35-120 cm, not forming corms; internodes smooth. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pilose, often most pilose at the throat and collar; ligules 0.5-1.5 mm; blades 1.5-4.5 mm wide, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, glabrous or puberulent. <b>Panicles</b> 6-25 cm; branches 3-8 cm, appressed, with 2-6 spikelets; pedicels straight; disarticulation above the glumes. <b>Spikelets</b> 7-20 mm, with 2-6 bisexual florets; rachilla internodes 2-2.4 mm. <b>Glumes</b> obtuse to subacute; lower glumes 4-10 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, 3-5-veined; upper glumes 5-11 mm long, 1.8-2.5 mm wide, 5-7-veined; lemmas 6-16 mm, hairy, hairs to 0.75 mm on the back, 0.7-1.3 mm on the margins, 9-11-veined, veins inconspicuous, apices mucronate to rounded, usually awned, awns 0.5-3 mm, fragile; paleas about 3/4 as long as to nearly equaling the length of the lemmas; anthers 3, 2.2-4 mm; rudiments 2.5-6 mm, tapering, resembling the bisexual florets. <b>Caryopses</b> about 5 mm. <b>2n</b> =18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;B.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Melica harfordii</i> grows primarily in the Pacific coast ranges from Washington to California, as well as in the Sierra <i>Nevada</i> and a few other inland locations, usually on dry slopes or in dry, open woods. The awns in <i>M. harfordii</i> often escape attention because they do not always extend beyond the lemma.</p>
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name=Melica harfordii
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|authority=Bol.
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Melica harfordii var. viridifolia;Melica harfordii var. tenuis;Melica harfordii var. minor
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.;B.C.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Melica
|species=Melica harfordii
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