Spinifex, common names, and pedants

Damn it and blast it . Do you think thats Triodia pungens or Triodia basedowii that is causing my fourby to burn to the ground willem .

Ah Troopyman, a mystery of vast proportions.

Wow!!!

Firstly I am not a pedant, I don't care what you call spinifex.

I think you may have misunderstood my post completely. I was just offering a little snippet of information and having a bit of a fun debate. Hence the smiley faces.

Sorry you saw my post as an attack on Willem. I would not do that.

Thanks for your offer to clarify my position.

My position is this-

I love EO and the forum. I love the free exchange of information and opinion that occurs here. I was adding a little note re spiinifex....just a little piece of information I learned along the way in this life. Sorry if you saw it differently. I will not and never have attacked Willem or anyone else.

Sorry I didn't respond in a timely manner. I have a business to run and sometimes I don't read the posts here for weeks

Below is further clarification using quotes from my previous post.

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I've found a more literal translation. Pila is just one word a large group of Aboriginal People including the Pila Ngaru (so called Spinifex people) use.

Pila describes the low plains covered in hummock grass, the areas between dunes. So I guess the Pila Ngaru call themselves people of the hummock grass plains.

But Willie if it makes you feel better, you can call them Spinifex. :-)
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Note the use of smiley. Note the Cheers!

To further clarify. Pila describes the land type, so though Triodia grows on sandhills, the Pila Ngaru consider themselves people of the hummock grass plains, not people of the sandhills covered in hummock grass. My point was simply that you can't say because we translate Pila to spinifex, that we are right. There are many words describing spinifex country in a single aboriginal language. So Pila Ngaru in my view are people of the hummock grass plains. If your prefer to call hummock grass spinifex, then you will call them people of the spinifex plains...feel free....I don't care what anyones calls the stuff. I was just adding to the flow of information on this forum. :-):-) The smileys here mean I am not atttacking you, and I mean the above to be read in good humour.

Another quote from my earlier post
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Not my idea mate, I am just quoting the botanists, same as Mr Pearson did.

Unfortunately my influence doesn't extent to the naming of genera or species, I have to put up with whatever the botanists called em :-) and Triodia is it. Not sure of the latin root of the word, but it may refer to the divided nature of the hummocks. ie that the grass isn't a continuous cover.

tribuo : to give out, divide, allot, assign, grant, give, allow.
tricesimus : triduana : lasting three days.
triduana : lasting three days.
triduanus : three days' duration, lasting three days.
triduum : a period of three days

From Wikipedia

Spinifex may refer to:

Spinifex, a species of grass that grows in coastal areas of Australia.
Spinifex, Triodia, a hummock grass of arid Australia, covering twenty per cent of the Australian continent. Although not technically Spinifex, it is commonly referred to as such.

So feel free to refer to it as such :-)
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Note use of word mate
Note use of smilies.

There is no taxonomic term hummock grass, it is a common name. I used it to differentiate from Spinifex sp. which is a real genus.

Spinifex (genus)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Spinifex (coastal))
Spinifex grass

Spinifex longifolius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Spinifex
L.
Species
S. sericeus - Beach Spinifex

This article is about an Australian coastal grass species. For the grass species of arid Australia, also commonly referred to as Spinefex, see Triodia (plant genus).
Unlike the plants of the related genus Triodia, Spinifex species are found only in wet habitats along coastlines. It is often planted along coastal regions, in snow drifts and to bind sand along the seashore.

I am sorry if anyone was offended by my earlier posts. Maybe I need to use more smilies.

Spoke for 45 min and didn't understand a word he said.

Cheers

WooooooooooFFFF

Spinifex was feature horse Mt Isa 1967

Dusty, thank you for the humerous input: after all, it's essentially crap n egos. Slip outside and see if that bloomin great comet is still hanging in there. Our Western sky is clouded in - again.

David, called Ed re smileys to thank him. No sign on our screen.(Similar problem with Andrew recently re clearing water) ?. Dunno

Looked at contacting you off forum. I'm too old for your site.

Dave, when you presented your educational and jovial post re spinifex, hummock grass and Spinifex, you apparently had hi jinks in mind.
Perhaps you can see that the more dour among us took exception to a tour operator telling city folk that "this here stuff is called hummock grass : Spinifex is a beach genus (Somewhat less common )".
Mate,if I could do a smiley face, then I would.
As I read it, those vast,arid lands, clothed mainly in Triodia, are termed 'hummock grasslands". And the predominant plants growing there are referred to (almost universally), as spinifex.
In a similar vein, what I (stupidly, probably),refer to as keroscene grass country is in fact, more correctly termed "tussock grassland".

Close enough, Old Man?
(And may no kindling ignite beneath your clients' vehicles). JH.