Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Lomandra effusa

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Scented Mat-rush

Family

Asparagaceae

Where found

Woodland, mallee, rocky sites, and saline moist areas. Western Slopes.

Notes

Grass like perennial herb to 0.8 m tall. Leaves with 2 sharp teeth at the tip. Leaves basal, 10-80 cm long, 1.3-3 mm wide, flat, glaucous, hairless, red-brown basally; with 2 sharp teeth at the tip. Margins of the basal leaf sheaths lacerated, brown. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers white, pink, or mauve, fragrant, with a funnel-shaped tube and 6 'petals'. Male flowers 4–7 mm long, with narrow 'petals', female flowers similar, with broad 'petals'. Male and female inflorescences similar, much-branched, 3–15 cm long. Flower clusters hidden among the leaf bases. Flower clusters hidden among the leaf bases. Flowering: following rain.

Family Lomandraceae in PlantNET.

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