Lomandra hystrix
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lomandroideae |
| Genus: | Lomandra |
| Species: | L. hystrix
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| Lomandra hystrix | |
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Xerotes hystrix R.Br. | |
Lomandra hystrix, commonly known as green mat-rush,[2] or creek mat-rush,[3] is a perennial, rhizomatous herb found throughout eastern Australia.
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown as Xerotes hystrix.[1][4] In 1937 Lilian Ross Fraser and Joyce Winifred Vickery gave it its current name of Lomandra hystrix.[1][5]
Description
[edit]The leaves are 80 cm to 100 cm long, and about 10 mm to 20 mm wide.[3] It grows beside watercourses in upland and mountain rainforest.[3]
The plant is often used for revegetation and erosion control.[2] The starchy, fleshy bases of the leaves are edible, tasting of raw peas. Even when the roots are exposed it will cling tenaciously in poor soils.[2]
This species is closely related to L. longifolia; the inner bract and flowers are similar, but it differs in leaf apex, lack of conspicuous marginal sclerenchyma bands on leaves, and in inflorescence branching.[6]
References
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- ^ a b c "Lomandra hystrix". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
- ^ a b c "Lomandra hystrix (LOMANDRACEAE) Green matrush". Retrieved 2015-01-27.
- ^ a b c F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Lomandra hystrix". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ Brown, Robert (1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802–1805, London: R. Taylor et socii, p. 262, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.3678, Wikidata Q7247677
- ^ Lilian Fraser; Joyce W. Vickery (1937). "Notes on some species occurring in the upper Williams River and Barrington Tops districts, with descriptions of two new species and two new varieties". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 62: 286. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q132192339.
- ^ "Lomandra hystrix (R.Br.) L.R.Fraser & Vickery". Plantnet. Retrieved 2015-01-27.