Xanthorrhoea australis
Austral Grass Tree, Kangaroo Tails at Corrowong, NSW
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| Xanthorrhoea australis | Tapirlord | 10 Jan 2025 | |
| Xanthorrhoea australis | marcycad | 8 Jan 2025 | |
| Xanthorrhoea (genus) | MichaelMulvaney | 19 Sep 2019 | |
| Xanthorrhoea (genus) | BettyDonWood | 13 Sep 2019 | |
| Xanthorrhoea concava | BlackFlat | 12 Sep 2019 |
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4 comments
13 Sep 2019
The trunk of Xanthorrhoea concava is underground. In the ACT, the only species of Xanthorrhoea is glauca. This far south it could be either australis or glauca. Apart from the leaf colour, green or bluish green, which is not very reliable, the way to distinguisg these two species apart is to look at the bracts around and between the flowers.
14 Sep 2019
I will try to remember to take a look and a macro photo this season. Thanks Betty.
Toni
Toni
8 Jan 2025
This region is too far south for X. glauca and the presence of an aerial caudex rules out X. concava.
Location information
- Maps Black Flat at Corrowong
- Places Corrowong, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- BlackFlat Recorded by
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
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- BlackFlat NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Grass-trees Palms and tree-like monocots Plants Xanthorrhoea australis
Species information
- Xanthorrhoea australis Scientific name
- Austral Grass Tree, Kangaroo Tails Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1006.71m Recorded at altitude
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