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|accepted_name=Melinis
|accepted_authority=P. Beauv.
|publications=
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Melinis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Melinis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 490
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; habit various. <b>Culms</b> 20-150 cm, erect, decumbent, or prostrate. <b>Sheaths</b> open; ligules of hairs or membranous and ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, simple pani¬cles or panicles of spikelike primary branches, usually with capillary secondary branches and pedicels; disarticulation below the glumes, sometimes also below the upper florets, the upper florets then falling first. <b>Spikelets</b> with 2 florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes present or absent, 0-1-veined, unawned; upper glumes equaling or exceeding the florets, sometimes gibbous basally, 5-7-veined, emarginate to bilobed, awned or unawned; lower florets staminate or sterile; lower lem¬mas similar to the upper glumes, but not gibbous; upper florets bisexual, laterally compressed; upper lemmas subcoriaceous, glabrous, smooth, unawned; upper paleas resembling the upper lemmas; lodicules 2, fleshy or membranous, x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;N.C.;Ariz.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Melinis</i> is an African and western Asian genus of 22 species that grow in savannahs, open grasslands, and disturbed places. Two species have become established in the Flora region.</p><!--
--><p>Rhynchelytrum Nees has traditionally been treated as a separate genus, with the number of veins being the diagnostic character. Zizka (1988) showed that this separation was artificial; consequently the older generic name, <i>Melinis</i>, is now applied to species that used to be included in Rhynchelytrum.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=anderson1991a
|text=Anderson, H.M. 1991. Melinis P. Beauv. Pp. 210-213 in G.E. Gibbs Russell, L. Watson, M. Koekemoer, L. Smook, N.P. Barker, H.M. Anderson, and M.J. Dallwitz. Grasses of Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). National Botanic Gardens, Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. 437 pp.
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|id=zizka1988a
|text=Zizka, G. 1988. Revision der Melinideae Hitchcock (Poaceae, Panicoideae). Biblioth. Bot. 138:1-149
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|id=zizka1990a
|text=Zizka, G. 1990. Taxonomy of the Melinideae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 23:563-572.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Glumes and pedicels glabrous, scabridulous; lower florets without paleas
|[[Melinis minutiflora|Melinis minutiflora]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Glumes, and usually the pedicels, with hairs to 7 mm long; lower florets with paleas
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf sheaths not strongly overlapping, blades not rolled
|[[Melinis repens|Melinis repens]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Strongly overlapping leaf sheaths, rolled blades, and usually perennial
|[[Melinis nerviglumis|Melinis nerviglumis]]
|}
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name=Melinis
|author=J.K. Wipff;
|authority=P. Beauv.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;N.C.;Ariz.;Fla.
|reference=anderson1991a;zizka1988a;zizka1990a
|publication title=
|publication year=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Melinis
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