Common name: Soft Brome
Bromus molliformis Jn.Lloyd APNI* 
Description: Tufted, erect annual to 0.9 m high.
Leaves with sheath villous; ligule truncate, to 2 mm long, sometimes pubescent; blade to 6 mm wide, villous to glabrous.
Panicle compact, ovoid, to 12.5 cm long. Spikelets compressed, 8–10-flowered, 14–24 mm long including awns. Lower glume ovate to lanceolate, 5-nerved, acute to broad-acute, 5–6 mm long; upper broader, 7-nerved, acute to obtuse, 6–7 mm long. Lemmas ± keeled in upper 50%, ovate to lanceolate or almost obovate, 7–8 mm long, apex shortly 2-fid; awn to 8.5 mm long, arising some distance below the sinus, straight. Palea 75–90% the length of the lemma.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread on a wide range of soil types, often as a weed of improved pastures. Native of Medit. region.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Vic. *W.A. *S.A.
*B. coloratus Steud. and *B. hankianus (Presl) Kunth have both been reported from SC and CC but do not seem to have become naturalized.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & S. M. Hastings
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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