Triodia basedowii

Triodia basedowii, commonly known as lobed spinifex, is a species of tussock-forming grass-like plant found in Australia.

Triodia basedowii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Triodia
Species:
T. basedowii
Binomial name
Triodia basedowii

It occurs on sandy plains and small hills and dunes of bare red sand. Green to purple flowers are displayed from long scapes at any time of the year, emerging from the short and dense foliage growing no more than 1.3 meters high.[1]

The associated landscape which it dominates is sometimes favoured as habitat of a pebble mound building mouse species Pseudomys chapmani.[2]

It was first described in 1918 by Ernst Georg Pritzel.[3][4]

Distribution and habitat

It occurs from the coast of Western Australia to central Queensland, in the far north-west of New South Wales, in the Northern Territory and in South Australia, where it is found on flat or slightly sloping sites in deep reddish sands or sandy loams, but also together with limestone or on skeletal soils on quartzite on the edges of salt lakes.[5]

References
  1. "Triodia basedowii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. Kitchener, D.J. (1983). "Pebble-mound Mouse Pseudomys chapmani". In Strahan, Ronald (ed.). Complete book of Australian mammals. Australian Museum: the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. pp. 416–17. ISBN 0207144540.
  3. "Triodia basedowii". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  4. Pritzel, E. (1918). "Species novae ex Australia centrali". Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. 15 (20–24): 356–361. doi:10.1002/fedr.19180152005.
  5. Lazarides,M., Weiller, C.M., McCusker, A. (2020). "Triodia basedowii". Flora of Australia. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Retrieved 11 April 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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