''Triodia basedowii'', commonly known as lobed spinifex, is a species of
tussock-forming grass-like plant found in
Australia
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.
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.
The associated landscape which it dominates is sometimes favoured as habitat of a pebble mound building mouse species ''
Pseudomys chapmani''.
It was first described in 1918 by
Ernst Georg Pritzel
Ernst Georg Pritzel (15 May 1875 – 6 April 1946) was a German botanist.
He is known for his research in the fields of phytogeography and taxonomy. He contributed works on Lycopodiaceae, Psilotaceae and Pittosporaceae to Engler & Prantl’s "Die ...
.
Distribution and habitat
It occurs from the coast of
Western Australia
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to central Queensland, in the far north-west of
New South Wales
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, in the
Northern Territory
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and in
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
, 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.
References
External links
''Triodia basedowii'' occurrence datafrom
Australasian Virtual Herbarium
The ''Australasian Virtual Herbarium'' (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It is part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), and was formed by the amalgamat ...
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Chloridoideae
Bunchgrasses of Australasia
Endemic flora of Australia
Poales of Australia
Taxa named by Ernst Pritzel
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