Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lomandra micrantha subsp. tuberculata
Common name
Small-flowered mat-rush
Family
Asparagaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Widespread. No records from the ACT or the Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb. Leaves basal, 20–70 cm long, 0.8–5 mm wide, flexible or stiff and erect, plano-convex in cross section, or flat in cross section and the margins rolled upwards, or folded, surfaces often glaucous, tips broadly pointed or blunt. Margins of the basal leaf sheaths usually intact, occasionally slightly torn, with purplish brown to black margins. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 6 'petals', greenish yellow to dark red, usually with pale margins. Male flowers 1.5–3 mm long, female flowers 3–5.5 mm long. Inflorescence a third to half as long as the leaves, the axis below the flowers hidden or, in the more easterly populations, half as long as the leaves to longer than the leaves and the axis exposed and conspicuously covered with wart-like projections. Male infloresescence 100–430 mm long, female 70–180 mm long. Bracts 1-3 mm long. Flowering: autumn–spring.
Family Lomandraceae in PlantNET.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Lomandra~micrantha+subsp.~tuberculata (accessed 13 April 2021)
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