Contains 2 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics
Briza L.
QUAKINGGRASS
Classification
POALES
Briza
Citation
BRIZA Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 70. 1753.
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TYPE: Briza minor Linnaeus Lectotypified by Nash, in Britton & A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2. 1: 250. 1913.
Species
Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Briza maxima BIG QUAKINGGRASS Not Native
Briza minor LITTLE QUAKINGGRASS Not Native FAC (NWPL)
[Family identification key]

No identification key is available for this family.

Genus Synonyms
Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Brizochloa Brizochloa V. Jirásek & Chrtek, Novit Bot. Delect. Seminum Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1966: 40. 1967. TYPE: Brizochloa spicata V. Jirásek & Chrtek 1967. (Briza spicata Sibthorp & Smith 1806, non Burman f. 1768.)
Calosteca Calosteca Desvaux, Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 190. 1810. TYPE: Calosteca brizoidea Desvaux
Chascolytrum Chascolytrum Desvaux, Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 190. 1810. TYPE: Non designatus.
Macrobriza Macrobriza (Tzvelev) Tzvelev, Komarovskie Chteniya (Moscow & Leningrad) 37: 32. 1987. BASIONYM: Briza Linneeus, sect. Macrobriza Tzvelev, Novost. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 21. 1970. TYPE: Macrobriza maxima (Linnaeus) Tzvelev 1993. (Briza maxima Linnaeus 1753.0
Tremularia Tremularia Heister ex Fabricius, Enum. Pl. 207. 1759. TYPE: = Briza Linnaeus 1753.