Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 606 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Queensland. On the Maranoa, Leichhardt; near Mount Pluto, Mitchell."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 29 [secondary reference]

common name: Warrego Spinifex [n/a]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 47 [secondary reference]

common name: Porcupine grass [n/a]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 789 [basionym]

basionym of: Sieglingia mitchellii (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 629 [secondary reference]

common name: Warrego Spinifex [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. (1953), The Genus Triodia R.Br. (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany 1(1): 146-151 [secondary reference]

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

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 178-180 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Triodia hostilis Domin legitimate common name: Buck Spinifex [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 546, pl. 30 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (29 August 1997), A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 453, fig. 21d (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Syntypes: Queensland: Sandy ridges of the Maranoa, F.W.Leichhardt s.n. (MEL, 2 sheets). Near Mt Pluto, T.L.Mitchell s.n. (not seen). Camp near the Pyramids, 26.x.1846, T.L.Mitchell s.n. (MEL; lectotype designated here).

taxonomic synonym: Triodia hostilis Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchellii var. pubivagina N.T.Burb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchellii var. breviloba N.T.Burb. legitimate

Lazarides, M., Weiller, C.M. & McCusker, A. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Triodia. Flora of Australia 44B: 237, Plate 28 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sieglingia mitchellii (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia hostilis Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchelli var. pubivagina N.T.Burb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchellii var. pubivagina N.T.Burb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchelli var. breviloba N.T.Burb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchellii var. breviloba N.T.Burb. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Triodia mitchelli Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sieglingia mitchellii (Benth.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Triodia mitchellii Benth. var. mitchellii legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia hostilis Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchelli var. pubivagina N.T.Burb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchellii var. pubivagina N.T.Burb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchelli var. breviloba N.T.Burb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Triodia mitchellii var. breviloba N.T.Burb. legitimate

• APC Comment: Triodia mitchellii var. breviloba and T. mitchellii var. pubivagina are recognised as distinct taxa in NSW.
• APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 387-388 [secondary reference]

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