Poaceae Barnhart
Briza minor L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 70 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Habitat in Helvetia, Italia.
Drummond, J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1840), The Journal of Botany: 347 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 21 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 9 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 9 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Briza virens L. legitimate common name: Small Quaking Grass [n/a]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 536 [secondary reference]
Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 49 [secondary reference]
common name: Little quaking grass [n/a]
Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 238 [secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 272 BHL [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 633 [secondary reference]
common name: Small Quaking Grass [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 77 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking-grass [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 10 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 115 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking-grass [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 130 [secondary reference]
common name: Quaking Grass [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 548 [secondary reference]
common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 22 [secondary reference]
common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Hubbard, C.E. (1970), Briza. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 53, Fig. 19 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Switzerland (LINN, holo.)"
Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 92 [secondary reference]
vernacular name: Shivery Grass [n/a] vernacular name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 68 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a] common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 38 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31 [secondary reference]
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 141 [secondary reference]
common name: Shivery grass [n/a]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 943, Fig. 314 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a] common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 112 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a] common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Briza. Flora of New South Wales 4: 617, pl. 32 [secondary reference]
common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 453 [secondary reference]
common name: Quaking Grass [n/a] common name: Small Shivery Grass [n/a]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 208 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 414 [secondary reference]
common name: Shivery Grass [n/a] common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 406 [secondary reference]
common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a] common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 172 (fig.) [secondary reference]
common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 340, 342 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Briza virens L. legitimate common name: Lesser Quaking Grass [n/a] common name: Shivery Grass [n/a]
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 370-371, photos 9-11 [secondary reference]
common name: Silvery Grass [n/a]
Essi, L., Longhi-Wagner, H.M. & Souza-Chies, T.T. (2017), A Synopsis of Briza, Brizochloa, and Chascolytrum (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 102(3): 472-474, Fig. 3 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "LINN-88.1!"
taxonomic synonym: Briza virens L. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Briza virens L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Briza virens [minor] R.Br. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)