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|accepted_name=Melica mutica
|accepted_authority=Walter
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|common_names=Two-flower melic
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Melica;Melica mutica
|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 mutica]]</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> 45-100 cm, not forming corms; internodes sometimes scabridulous above the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pilose; ligules 0.5-1.5 mm; blades 1.8-6 mm wide, abaxial surfaces glabrous, scabridulous, adaxial surfaces with hairs. <b>Panicles</b> 4-25 cm; branches 3.5-6 cm, appressed to spreading, straight, with 2-5 spikelets; pedicels sharply bent below the spikelets; disarticulation below the glumes. <b>Spikelets</b> 6-11 mm, with (1)2(4) bisexual florets, floret apices at about the same level; rachilla internodes 1.5-1.7 mm. <b>Lower</b> glumes 4.5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, 5-7-veined; upper glumes 5-9 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, 5-6-veined; lemmas 6-11 mm, glabrous or scabrous, indurate, 9-11-veined, veins prominent, apices rounded to acute, unawned; paleas about 3/4 the length of the lemmas; anthers 1-3 mm; rudiments 2-3 mm, clublike, not resembling the bisexual florets, at a sharp angle to the rachilla. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;W.Va.;Ala.;D.C;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Melica mutica</i> grows in moist or dry areas in open woods and thickets, from Iowa and Texas east to Maryland and Florida. It is unique among the North American species in having a clublike rudiment at a sharp angle to the rachilla.</p>
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name=Melica mutica
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|authority=Walter
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|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;W.Va.;Ala.;D.C;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Melica
|species=Melica mutica
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