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Xanthorrhoea minor
Citation:
R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 288 (1810) subsp. Intea Bedford, Fl. Aust. 46: unpubl. (1986).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Trunk none, stem branched below the ground; crowns usually many, each a more or less erect tuft of leaves; leaves depressed-cuneate or often concave in section, 1.9-3.5 mm wide, 1-1.5 mm thick, green, not glaucous.
Inflorescence 65-140 cm long; scape 10-120 (usually 30-60) cm long, 3-8 mm diam.; spike a fifth to half as long as the scape, 2-23 (usually 5-12) cm long, 7-20 mm diam.; cluster-bracts sometimes prominent but often obscure, short-acute to triangular, distal third glabrous to sparsely fringed with hairs, proximally subglabrous to densely hairy; packing-bracts more or less acute, medium-hairy on the margins and abaxial surfaces; outer perianth-segments broad, short-acute, beaked, sometimes with a proboscis, glabrous to moderately hirsute; inner segments recurved, very broad, sometimes with a proboscis, glabrous except for papillose hairs ab- and adaxially at the apex, yellow.
Fruit curved upwards, 9-15 mm long, emerging 5-8 mm above the bracts; seeds 6-10 mm long, 3-4 mm wide.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: March, April.
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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:
There are 2 geographic subspecies, but only 1 subspecies occurs in S.Aust.
Author:
Not yet available
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