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|accepted_name=Trisetum melicoides
|accepted_authority=(Michx.) Scribn.
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|common_names=False melic;Trisete fausse-melique
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|name=Trisetum melicoides var. majus
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Trisetum;Trisetum melicoides
|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 Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trisetum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trisetum melicoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 745
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, with both fertile and sterile shoots; cespitose. <b>Culms</b> (20)40-80(100) cm, erect, smooth or scabridulous. <b>Leaves</b> concentrated below midlength on the culms; sheaths glabrous or pilose; ligules 1.5-3.5 mm, rounded or truncate; blades 10-20+ cm long, 2-9 mm wide, flat, lax. <b>Panicles</b> 8-20 cm long, usually 2-4 cm wide, lax, nodding, silvery-green or tan; lower branches to 5 cm, ascending, naked below, the spikelets imbricate distally. <b>Spikelets</b> 5-7(9) mm, pedicellate, lance-ovate, with 2(4) florets; rachilla internodes and hairs 1.3-2 mm. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, widest at or below the middle; lower glumes 4-5.5 mm; upper glumes 5-7 mm long, nearly as long as the florets, wider than the lower glumes; callus hairs 1.5-2 mm; lemmas 5-6 mm, smooth or scabridulous, apices usually minutely bifid, sometimes entire, unawned or awned. awns to 2 mm, arising just below and rarely exceeding the apices; paleas shorter than the lemmas; anthers 0.6-0.8 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> about 3 mm, sparsely pubescent distally. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;N.H.;Vt.;Mich.;Wis.;N.Y.;N.B.;Nfld. And Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.
|discussion=<p><i>Trisetum melicoides</i> is a native species that grows on moist, cool stream banks, gravelly shores, shaded rock ledges (especially calcareous ones), and in damp woods. It grows only in southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States. It is listed as endangered in Wisconsin, New York, and Maine. Plants with pilose sheaths have been called <i>T. melicoides</i> <i></i></i>var.<i><i> majus</i> (A. Gray) Hitchc, but the trait varies within populations.</p>
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|authority=(Michx.) Scribn.
|rank=species
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|synonyms=Trisetum melicoides var. majus
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Maine;N.H.;Vt.;Mich.;Wis.;N.Y.;N.B.;Nfld. And Labr. (Labr.);N.S.;Ont.;Que.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Trisetum
|species=Trisetum melicoides
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