Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lomandra multiflora subsp. multiflora
Common name
Many-flowered mat-rush
Family
Asparagaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, heath, and grassland. Widespread.
Notes
Tufted perennial herb, slender to robust. Flower stalks cylindrical or slightly angular in cross section. Leaves basal, flat or slightly concavo-convex in cross section, occasionally plano-convex in cross section, rarely cylindrical, 25–90 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, green, greyish green, or rarely glaucous, smooth or rough on the lower surface, tips pointed or rounded. Margins of the basal leaf sheaths entire or with little laceration, white, purplish or brown. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 6 'petals', inner 'petals' yellow, outer 'petals' often coloured reddish brown. Male flowers 2.5-3.5 mm long, female flowers about 4.5 mm long. Male inflorescence 1- or 2-branched or rarely unbranched; axis of the inflorescence below the flowers shorter than the inflorescence, individual flower clusters whorled. Female inflorescence similar, usually unbranched. Bracts below the flower clusters usually not noticeable, occasionally longer to much longer than the flowers, sharp-pointed. Flowering: May–Jan.
Family Lomandraceae in PlantNET.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lomandra~multiflora (accessed 13 April 2021)
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