Common name: Small-flowered Mat-rush
Lomandra micrantha (Endl.) Ewart APNI* 
Description: Tufted perennial herb.
Leaves flexuous, or stiff and erect, plano-convex or flat and inrolled or folded, 20–50 cm long, 0.8–2.5 mm wide (flat and up to 5 mm wide in montane areas), apex broad-acute or obtuse; sheath margins usually intact, occasionally slightly lacerated, purplish brown to black margins.
Inflorescence a third to half as long as leaves, the scape hidden or, in the more easterly populations, half to three-quarters as long as leaves (in male sometimes as long as leaves) and the scape exposed, male 10–43 cm long, female 7–18 cm long; axis strongly tuberculate. Bracts broad-acuminate, 1–3 mm long. Flowers pedicellate, greenish yellow to dark red, usually with pale margins; males 1.5–3 mm long, females 3–5.5 mm long. Tepals similar, spreading or reflexed at anthesis.
Flowering: autumn–winter (spring in montane areas).
Distribution and occurrence: From southeastern NSW, Vic, S.A. and W.A. There are three subspecies, only subspecies tuberculata occurs in NSW
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A. W.A.
Text by A. L. Quirico
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. tuberculata |
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