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Family: Asphodelaceae
Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata

Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 4:111 (1864).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Mount Lofty grass-tree.

Description:
Trunk to 2 m, sometimes branched; crowns hemispherical; leaves quadrate-rhombic in section, 1.5-2.5 (usually c. 1.8) mm wide, 1-1.5 mm thick, very bluegrey-green, glaucous.

Inflorescence 95-125 cm long; scape 20-70 (usually c. 55) cm long, c. 12 mm diam.; spike length usually less than the scape length, 5-60 (usually c. 30)cm long, 20-40 (usually c. 30) mm diam., dark-brown at flowering; cluster-bracts obscure; packing-bracts short-acute to acute, subglabrous, tips darkening with age; outer perianth-segments short-acute, beaked, without a proboscis, subglabrous; inner segments shortly recurved, glabrous except for a tuft of short hairs at the apex.

Fruits straight, 15-21 mm long, emerging 4-9 mm above the bracts; seeds 9-12 mm long, 3-4 mm wide.

Distribution:  Inhabits dry rocky sites, especially ridges, but also heavy clay soils.

S.Aust.: LE, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, SL.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: March — Aug.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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