Species of grass
 ;templatestyles src="Template:Taxobox/core/styles.css" / ;
Melica brevicoronata, is a grass species in the family Poaceae that can be found in Brazil, southern South America, and Cerro Pan de Azúcar, Uruguay.
Description.
The species is perennial with elongated rhizomes and pilose butt sheaths. Its culms are erect and are long. Leaf-sheaths are tubular with one of their length being closed. Its eciliate membrane is long with leaf-blades being long and wide. They also have scabrous bottom, are pubescent and a bit hairy. The panicle is open, is linear and is long. The main panicle branches are spread out. It spikelets are elliptic, solitary and are long. Fertile spikelets have ciliated, curved and filiform pedicels.
Margins of lemma are ciliate. The lemma itself though is long and have obtuse apex. Fertile lemma is chartaceous and is long and wide. Palea have scaberulous keels and surface. Rhachilla is in length and is extended. Lower glumes are elliptic and are long while the upper glumes are lanceolate and are long. Both the lower and upper glumes are obtuse and have asperulous surfaces. Flowers are fleshy, oblong, truncate, and grow together, the 3 anthers of which are in length. Fruits are brown coloured, ellipsoid and have an additional pericarp and are long with linear hilum.
References.
 ;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" / ;