Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Lomandra leucocephala subsp. leucocephala

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Carnarvon National Park, Qld

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Carnarvon National Park, Qld

Common name

Woolly Mat-rush, Irongrass

Family

Asparagaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and under mallee. West of Cowra.

Notes

Grass like perennial herb, rhizomes ascending. Flower stem hairy with minute hairs. Leaves basal, 20-60 cm long, usually 1-2 mm wide, flat, with white hairs near the base and along the margins. Margins of the basal leaf sheaths white, readily lacerating into abundant loose silky or woolly, fragments. Male and female flowers on different plants. Fragrant flowers. Flowers white to cream, with 6 'petals' (only 3 obvious), to 7 mm long. Inflorescence spherical or oval, 10-20 mm long. Male inflorescence usually with 1, 2 or 3 segments, female inflorescence usually not segmented, globular. Flowering: chiefly July–Sept.

Family Lomandraceae in PlantNET.

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