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Scientific Name
Synonyms
Family
Common Names
Origin
Naturalised Distribution
Notes
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mass amenity planting (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaf tip (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

cluster of male flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

cluster of female flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

mature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of the leaf tip of the very similar Lomandra hystrix (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Lomandra longifolia

Scientific Name

Lomandra longifolia Labill.

Synonyms

Lomandra longifolia Labill. subsp. exilis A.T. Lee
Lomandra longifolia Labill. subsp. longifolia
Lomandra longifolia Labill. var. longifolia

Family

Dasypogonaceae (Western Australia)
Laxmanniaceae (Queensland)
Liliaceae (South Australia)
Lomandraceae (New South Wales and the ACT)
Xanthorrhoeaceae (Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory)

Common Names

basket grass, common lomandra, honey reed, lomandra, long leaf mat rush, long-leaved matrush, mat rush, mat-rush, spiny headed mat-rush, spiny-headed mat rush, spiny-headed mat-lily, spiny-headed mat-rush

Origin

Native to large parts of eastern Australia (i.e. eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and some parts of south-eastern South Australia).

Naturalised Distribution

This species is possibly becoming naturalised in south-western Western Australia.

Notes

Long-leaved mat-rush (Lomandra longifolia ) is regarded as an emerging or potential environmental weed in Western Australia.