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Internal ID UUID64403141c4747380470298
Scientific name Melica nitens
Authority (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper
First published in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 32: 387 (1905)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melica diffusa var. nitens Scribn. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 37: 44 (1885)
Melica scabra Nutt. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. , n.s., 5: 148 (1835)

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English threeflower melicgrass
English three-flower melic grass
English shining oniongrass
English threeflower melic

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000879312
Flora of Alabama 4868
USDA Plants MENI
Tropicos 25536794
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1034576-2
The Plant List kew-423704
Open Tree Of Life 3951735
NCBI Taxonomy 2527785
Nature Serve 2.140666
IPNI 1034576-2
iNaturalist 165237
GBIF 2703105
Freebase /m/0jwtjw3
WisFlora 4219
EOL 1115028
USDA GRIN 70438
Wikipedia Melica_nitens

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Early inflorescence development in the grasses (Poaceae) Kellogg EA, Camara PE, Rudall PJ, Ladd P, Malcomber ST, Whipple CJ, Doust AN Front Plant Sci 23-Jul-2013
PMCID:PMC3721031
doi:10.3389/fpls.2013.00250
PMID:23898335

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