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Sighting 4233647

Lomandra multiflora

Many-flowered Matrush at Illilanga & Baroona

Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
Lomandra multiflora at Illilanga & Baroona - 12 Jan 2019 11:34 AM
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Lomandra multiflora 3 Sep 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Lomandra longifolia 1 Sep 2019 MichaelMulvaney
Unverified 1 Sep 2019 Illilanga

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8 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:
   2 Sep 2019
I don’t think it is longifolia, which usually has conspicuous spiky bracts below individual flower clusters, and the inflorescences are too long for bracteata. It might be confertifolia, which is not on the ACT plant census list.
Unfortunately, even when I blow up the few leaf tips that are in these photos, I cannot tell what the leaf tips look look like.
At present I am thinking Lomandra sp.
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
   2 Sep 2019
Sandra can you please take out one of your photos and take another showing the tip of the leaves, Thanks
Illilanga wrote:
   2 Sep 2019
I have added another photo. Many of the leaf tips were munched, so hope this helps. Otherwise I can go and find the plant again (hopefully) and get a better photo.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   2 Sep 2019
Definitely not longifolia, with rounded rather than the 2-3 toothed tips of longifolia.
My thinking now is to take a dried specimen taken while it is still in flower into the Botanic Gardens for a definite ID.
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
   3 Sep 2019
It is possibly Lomandra multiflora.
Illilanga wrote:
   3 Sep 2019
Thanks all. I will go back and find the plant and any others nearby. The sighting was from January, so it is quite possible that the plant has been chewed back in these dry times.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   4 Sep 2019
I imagine that the leaves could be at the top of the range of 1.5-5 mm wide for multiflora, though because of the closeups they give the impression of being wider. So all in all I agree with multiflora, possibly a female plant.
Illilanga wrote:
   4 Sep 2019
We went and had a look yesterday and found we had multiple plants in that area which are a lot easy to see with the lack of grass cover at the moment. When they flower I will post up more photos in a separate sighting or get some samples. I didn't realise there were male and female plants!

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Additional information

  • True In flower
  • 30cm to 1 metre Plant height

Species information

  • Lomandra multiflora Scientific name
  • Many-flowered Matrush Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1027.06m Recorded at altitude
  • 347 images trained Machine learning

  • Synonyms

    Lomandra multiflora

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