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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Genus: | Triodia |
| Species: | T. basedowii
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| Binomial name | |
| Triodia basedowii | |
Triodia basedowii, commonly known as lobed spinifex, is a species of tussock-forming grass-like plant found in Australia.
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]
- ^ "Triodia basedowii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Triodia basedowii". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- ^ Pritzel, E. (1918). "Species novae ex Australia centrali". Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. 15 (20–24): 356–361. doi:10.1002/fedr.19180152005.