| Name | Brachypodium flexum Nees |
| Authorship | Nees |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Brachypodium |
| Contains | Brachypodium flexum var. abyssinicum Hochstetter |
| Citation | 1841 Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill. 456–457 |
| Holdings | 4 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Brachypodium flexum Nees |
| Identification made in | [no date] (4) |