''Triodia stipoides'' is a species of grass native to the
Kimberley region
The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean, on the north by the Timor Sea, on the south by the Great Sandy Desert, Great Sandy and Tanami Desert, Tanami deserts in t ...
of
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
. It is a perennial which grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropics.
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It was named ''Monodia stipoides'' in 1985 by ]Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs
Surrey Wilfrid Laurance Jacobs (born 29 April 1946 in Sydney - died 26 November 2009) was an Australian botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, thei ...
, who classified it the sole species in genus ''Monodia''.Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
/ref> It was reclassified into genus '' Triodia'' in 2015.[
]
References
stipoides
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 1985
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