Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Lomandra cylindrica

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, west of Nowra.

Common name

Needle Mat-rush

Family

Asparagaceae

Where found

Dry forest. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Sparsely tufted perennial herb, often with only 2–4 leaves. Leaves basal, cylindrical or flattened cylindrical, usually about 25–35 mm long (rarely less), usually 1–2 mm in diameter, tips pointed. Margins of the basal leaf sheaths scarcely lacerated, reddish or purplish. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 6 yellow 'petals'. Male flowers globular, about 2 mm long; outer 'petals' broad-elliptic to more or less circular, shorter and more membranous than the thick inner 'petals'. Female flowers more tubular, about 3 mm long. Male inflorescence a third to half or rarely a quarter or nearly as long as the leaves, unbranched or occasionally few-branched; axis of the inflorescence below the flowers approximately as long as the inflorescence. Flowers separate, well spaced. Female inflorescence similar but shorter, rarely branched. Bracts below the individual flower clusters 1-2 mm long.

Family Lomandraceae in PlantNET.

Data deficient Vic..

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lomandra~cylindrica (accessed 13 April 2021)