Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 182 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T). v.v.

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

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

basionym of: Sieglingia procera (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

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

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

Burbidge, N.T. (1953), The Genus Triodia R.Br. (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany 1(1): 136-137 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "north coast, R. Brown."

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 201 [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]

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. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Triodia. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1234 [secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (29 August 1997), A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 462, figs 15d-f, 22b (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Syntypes: Northern Territory: Darwin and Gulf District; Gulf of Carpentaria, R.Brown [6256], 4 sheets labelled 'Carpentaria Island g' (=Vanderlin Is., Sir Edward Pellew Group), 'Arnhem South Bay' (=Caledon Bay), 'North Coast' (=lectotype designated here), and one sheet without details (BM, E; isolectoypes in BRI, MEL).

Lazarides, M., Weiller, C.M. & McCusker, A. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Triodia. Flora of Australia 44B: 227, Fig. 35D-F APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sieglingia procera (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

Lazarides, M., Weiller, C.M. & McCusker, A. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Triodia. Flora of Australia 44B: 229 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Triodia burbidgeana S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Triodia. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1234

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