lodicule

In Melica there is one large anterior lodicule resulting presumably from the union of the two which are present in allied genera.

Professor E. Hackel, however, regards this as an undivided second pale, which in the majority of the grasses is split in halves, and the posterior lodicule, when present, as a third pale.

Lodicule, one of the scales answering to perianth-leaves in Grass-flowers.