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Melica brasiliana is a perennial wild grass from southern Brazil and neighbouring South America, known from its slender rhizomes, short culms and drooping spikelets. It is rarely grown in gardens, and care is best matched to temperate native grasses.
Melica brasiliana, is a grass species in the family Poaceae that is endemic to Brazil and southern South America.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melica brasiliana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
