Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 185 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T.) v.v.

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 21 [secondary reference]

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

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

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: Purple-headed grass [n/a]

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

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 383 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 74 [secondary reference]

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

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 111, Fig. 138 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Heads [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 85 [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): 224 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 151-152 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Needle Grass [n/a] common name: Purpleheads [n/a] common name: Needle Grass [n/a] common name: Feather Top [n/a] common name: Foxtail Grass [n/a] common name: Purple Plume Grass [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: 443, Fig. 570 [secondary reference]

common name: purple heads [n/a] common name: needle grass [n/a] common name: Purple plume grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 39 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 142 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple plumegrass [n/a]

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]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 143, Fig. 22H [secondary reference]

common name: Needle Grass [n/a] common name: Purple Plumegrass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Triraphis. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1238, Fig. 350A [secondary reference]

common name: Needle grass [n/a] common name: Purple Plumegrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Triraphis. Flora of New South Wales 4: 563 [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Needlegrass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 557, Fig. 112a-c [secondary reference]

common name: Needle-grass [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Triraphis. Flora of Australia 44B: 424, 426, Plate 62, Fig. 76A-C [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Sessleria mollis Spreng. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sesleria mollis (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triraphis mollis var. humilis Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triraphis mollis f. caespitosa Domin legitimate common name: Needle Grass [n/a] common name: Purple Plumegrass [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 389-390 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Purple Needlegrass [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Trirhaphis mollis F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sesleria mollis (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sessleria mollis Spreng. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Triraphis mollis R.Br. var. mollis legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Triraphis mollis R.Br. f. mollis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triraphis mollis var. humilis Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triraphis mollis f. caespitosa Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

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