Family: Xanthorrhoeaceae
Plant: A tufted plant, usually without a trunk, with a flowering spike rising to a total height of about 2.5m.
Flowers: Cream to white, 6 tepals with dark brown, hairless or sparsely hairy bracts. Inflorescence is a spike 1.5m long and 3cm diameter that is longer that the stem.
Flowering: August-April.
Fruit: Shiny brown and hard capsule.
Leaves: Glossy-green, strap-like about 1m long and 2-3mm wide with a quadrangular cross-section in a hemispherical basal tuft. The older leaves are reflexed.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Flower spike longer that the stem Strongly reflexed older leaves.
Name:
Xanthorrhoea
From Greek xanthos = yellow and rheo = flow (referring to its resin).
media From Latin media = in the middle (referring to the length of its flowering stem).
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Cylindrical, Spike |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, |
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12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Hard |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Basal-tufted |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Strap-like |
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Length |
Very long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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