Melica

Accepted species 96 Documented here 24 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 96 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Melica nutans L. 616 documented
Melica uniflora Retz. 471 documented
Melica mutica Walter 151 documented
Melica imperfecta Trin. 146 documented
Melica ciliata L. 107 documented
Melica transsilvanica Schur 106 documented
Melica torreyana Scribn. 105 documented
Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper 102 documented
Melica californica Scribn. 89 documented
Melica subulata (Griseb.) Scribn. 83 documented
Melica stricta Bol. 64 documented
Melica altissima L. 40 documented
Melica altissima L. 40 documented
Melica minuta L. 24 documented
Melica bulbosa Porter & J.M.Coult. 22 documented
Melica frutescens Scribn. 17 documented
Melica picta K.Koch 14 documented
Melica racemosa Thunb. 14 documented
Melica macra Nees 9 documented
Melica harfordii Bol. 8 documented
Melica spectabilis Scribn. 6 documented
Melica sarmentosa Nees 4 documented
Melica dendroides Lehm. 3 documented
Melica lilloi Bech. 3 documented
Melica argyrea Hack. 2 below the evidence gate
Melica rigida Cav. 2 below the evidence gate
Melica smithii (Porter ex A.Gray) Vasey 1 below the evidence gate
Melica × aschersonii M.Schulze 0 below the evidence gate
Melica × haussknechtii W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica × thuringiaca Rauschert 0 below the evidence gate
Melica × tzvelevii W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica × weinii W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica amethystina Pourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica animarum Muj.-Sall. & M.Marchi 0 below the evidence gate
Melica argentata É.Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica aristata Thurb. ex Bol. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica arzivencoi Valls & Barcellos 0 below the evidence gate
Melica bocquetii Talavera 0 below the evidence gate
Melica bonariensis Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Melica brasiliana Ard. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica brevicoronata Roseng. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica canariensis W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica capillaris Banks & Sol. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica cepacea (Phil.) Scribn. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica chatkalica Lazkov & Usupbaev 0 below the evidence gate
Melica chilensis J.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Melica commersonii Nees ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica cupanii Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica decipiens Caro 0 below the evidence gate
Melica eligulata Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica eremophila Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Melica fugax Bol. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica geyeri Munro ex Bol. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica glabrescens (Torres) Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Melica hunzikeri Nicora 0 below the evidence gate
Melica hyalina Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Melica kozlovii Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Melica longiflora Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica longiligulata Z.L.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Melica minor Hack. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica mollis Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica montezumae Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Melica onoei Franch. & Sav. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica pappiana W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica parodiana Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Melica patagonica Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Melica paulsenii Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica penicillaris Boiss. & Balansa 0 below the evidence gate
Melica persica Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Melica poecilantha É.Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica porteri Scribn. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica przewalskyi Roshev. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica radula Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica rectiflora Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica riograndensis Longhi-Wagner & Valls 0 below the evidence gate
Melica scaberrima (Nees ex Steud.) Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica scabra Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Melica scabrosa Trin. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica schafkati Bondarenko 0 below the evidence gate
Melica schuetzeana W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica secunda Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica serrana Muj.-Sall. & M.Marchi 0 below the evidence gate
Melica smirnovii Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Melica spartinoides L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica stuckertii Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica subflava Z.L.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Melica tangutorum Tzvelev 0 below the evidence gate
Melica taylorii W.Hempel 0 below the evidence gate
Melica teneriffae Hack. ex Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Melica tenuis Arechav. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica tibetica Roshev. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica trebinjensis Strobl 0 below the evidence gate
Melica turczaninowiana Ohwi 0 below the evidence gate
Melica violacea Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica virgata Turcz. ex Trin. 0 below the evidence gate
Melica yajiangensis Z.L.Wu 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.