Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Xanthorrhoea fulva
Common name
A grass-tree
Family
Xanthorrhoeaceae
Where found
Heath in periodically waterlogged sites in sand in coastal areas. North from the Sydney area.
Notes
Shrub-like perennial herb. Trunk absent, the stem branched below the ground. Scape below the spike 0.2–1.6 m long, 5–20 mm in diameter, flower spike 0.1–0.6 m long, 10–30 mm in diameter. Leaves basal, forming one to many crowns, each a stiff erect tuft. Leaves almost triangular in cross section, 1.9–3.5 mm wide, 1–1.5 mm thick, usually more or less blue-green, glaucous. Individual flowers with 6 'petals' in two rows, outer 'petals' papery or more or less membranous, inner 'petals' membranous. Bracts surrounding the flowers obscure or slightly prominent, pointed, and densely hairy. Bracts between the flowers blunt, and densely hairy with pale hairs. Flowering: August–October
Hybridises with Xanthorrhoea glauca subsp. angustifolia.
Protected NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Xanthorrhoea~fulva (accessed 12 February, 2021)
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