Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Xanthorrhoea concava
Common name
A Grass-tree
Family
Xanthorrhoeaceae
Where found
Dry forest and heath, often in seasonally waterlogged sites. Mainly coastal.
Notes
Shrub-like perennial herb. Trunk absent. Scape below the spike 0.5–2.5 m long, about 10 mm in diameter; flower spike 0.5–0.9 m long, 15–30 mm in diameter. Leaves basal, forming a spreading to almost erect tuft. Leaves 3–6 mm wide, 1.5–2 mm thick, blue-green, glaucous, almost a wide triangle in cross section, the long side almost flat or concave. Individual flowers with 6 'petals' in two rows, outer 'petals' papery or more or less membranous, inner 'petals' membranous. The whole spike light brown when flowering. Bracts surrounding the flowers obscure. Bracts between the flowers densely hairy with pale hairs, appearing velvety. Flowering: October–December
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Xanthorrhoea~concava (accessed 12 February, 2021)
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