Family: Asparagaceae
Lomandra dura
Citation:
Ewart, Proc. R. Soc. Vic. 28:219 (1916).
Synonymy: Xerotes dura F. Muell., J. Trans. Vic. Inst. 42 (1855); L. multiflora sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 188 (1943).
Common name: Stiff mat-rush.
Description:
Leaves 30-50 cm long, 3-5 mm broad, rigid, flattish, glaucous.
Flowers of both sexes sessile, or the male with pedicels to 2 mm long, clustered along the branches of a rigid whorled panicle 10-20 cm long, with small white lanceolate bracts at the base; male perianth c. 3 mm long, the outer segments thin, brownish, oblong, about as long as the 3 inner ones which are thick, yellow and united in a tube in the lower half, the thickened filaments attached within the tube; all the segments obtuse; female segments all free, obtuse, c. 3 mm long.
Capsule globular, smooth, c. 5 mm diam.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
See note under L. multiflora whose separation from L. dura appears to require further study.
Author:
Not yet available
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