Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Melica porteri Scribn.


POACEAE Family selection - Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Melica porteri Scribn. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 37: 44, tab. 1. 1885
Rank: species

pictures Images of Melica porteri


Common names

US name U.S. name: Porter's melicgrass
en English name: Porter's melic

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

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Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Melica porteri Scribn. var. laxa Boyle
2) Melica porteri Scribn. var. porteri



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Melica
Species:


Page counter: 261 ( AVG: 223.03 / 292.019 )



Gallery:

Melica porteri
Melica porteri
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image

Melica porteri
Melica porteri
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 247.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AZ, CO, KS, NM, TX, UT)

Distributional map for Melica porteri Scribn.
Map for Melica porteri Scribn.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Melica purpurascens (Torr.) Hitchc. [134]
2) Melica smithii (Porter ex A. Gray) Vasey [369]
3) Melica subulata (Griseb.) Scribn. [308]
4) Melicope adscendens (H. St. John & Hume) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone [1247]
5) Melicope feddei (Levl.) T.G. Hartley & B.C. Stone [178]
6) Melilotus alba Medikus, orth. var. [259]
7) Melilotus indica (L.) All., orth. var. [124]
8) Melilotus messanensis (L.) All. [158]
9) Melilotus sulcatus Desf. [2461]
10) Melochia indica Kurz [139]

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