Pritzel, E. (1918), Species novae ex Australia centrali. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 15(20-24): 356 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "in Australia centrali (districtu. C. sec. cl. Tate) leg. H. Basedow, 1903."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 112 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. (1946), A revision of the Western Australian species of Triodia R.Br. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 30: 19 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 67,73 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. (1953), The Genus Triodia R.Br. (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany 1(1): 153-155 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 223 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 274 [secondary reference]

common name: Spinifex [n/a] common name: Porcupine Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 149, 150, Fig. 34a [secondary reference]

common name: Buck Spinifex [n/a] common name: Hard Spinifex [n/a] common name: Lobed Spinifex [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 55 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 444-445, Fig. 572A-B [secondary reference]

common name: hard spinifex [n/a] common name: Lobed spinifex [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 38 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 67 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 545 [secondary reference]

common name: Hard Spinifex [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (29 August 1997), A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 408, fig. 11f. [secondary reference]

• Type: ?Syntypes: Northern Territory; Central Australia; Elder Exploring Expedition, Arkaringa Creek, in 1903m H. Basedow *315, *425 (K, NSW).

Lazarides, M., Weiller, C.M. & McCusker, A. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Triodia. Flora of Australia 44B: 221-222 [secondary reference]

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 210 (photo) [secondary reference]

common name: Hard Spinifex [n/a] common name: Lobed Spinifex [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Triodia pungens R.Br. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 112

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 387 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Hard Spinifex [n/a]

Anderson, B.M., Thiele, K.R. & Barrett, M.D. (20 October 2017), A revision of the Triodia basedowii species complex and close relatives (Poaceae: Chloridoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 30(3): 202-205, Figs 4, 5 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "central Australia, H. Basedow 315, 1903 (lecto: NSW 298653, designated here)."

misapplication: Triodia pungens R.Br. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 74 misapplication: Triodia lanigera Domin legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1870, Fig. 852F

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Triodia pungens R.Br. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 112 misapplication: Triodia lanigera Domin legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1870, Fig. 852F

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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