Common name: Shivery Grass, Small Shivery Grass, Quaking Grass
Briza minor L. APNI* 
Description: Glabrous annual to 0.6 m high.
Leaves with sheath loose, smooth and striate; ligule oblong, obtuse, 3–6 mm long; blade 2–10 mm wide, apex attenuate.
Inflorescence broad-obovate, lax, 5–10 cm long. Spikelets ovate to triangular, very obtuse, erect to drooping on slender pedicels, 4–8-flowered. Glumes broadly oblong-obovate, obtuse or abruptly acute, usually pale green but less often purplish. Lemmas closely imbricate, broadly cordate-ovate, 2–3 mm long, tips obtuse, often inflexed. Palea elliptic, 1.5 mm long, finely winged, the wings very minutely ciliolate.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of disturbed areas. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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