Paspalidium breviflorum Vickery APNI* 
Description: Slender perennial to 0.4 m high.
Leaves with sheath glabrous or ciliate along 1 margin and at the collar; ligule a row of cilia, scarcely 0.5 mm long; blade to 3.5 mm wide.
Panicle at length much-exserted, 10–30 cm long; bristle slender, 1–2 mm long. Spikelets 1.7–2 mm long, ± obtuse but minutely apiculate. Lower glume 35–50% the length of the spikelet, subacute, 3-nerved; upper c. 80% as long as the spikelet, obtuse, usually minutely apiculate, prominently 7–9-nerved. Lower lemma sterile, subequalling the spikelet, minutely apiculate, 5-nerved; palea small or absent. Upper lemma gibbous, equalling the spikelet, striolate, coarsely transversely rugulose about the middle, very broad-elliptic, apiculate.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs north from New England area. Grows in woodlands on good soil in higher rainfall areas.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & C. A. Wall
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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