Black, J.M. (1930), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 28. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 54: 59, t. IV, figs 5-8 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Finke Gorge, Hermannsberg, Central Australia; coll. J.B. Cleland."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 112-113 [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: 26 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 76 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. (1953), The Genus Triodia R.Br. (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany 1(1): 166-167 [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]

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

common name: buck spinifex [n/a] common name: Giant grey 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]

Lazarides, M. (29 August 1997), A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 445, fig. 20d (map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Triodia longiceps var. minor J.M.Black legitimate

Lazarides, M., Weiller, C.M. & McCusker, A. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Triodia. Flora of Australia 44B: 210 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Triodia longiceps var. minor J.M.Black legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Triodia longiceps J.M.Black var. longiceps legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia longiceps var. minor J.M.Black legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

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