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Lomandra hystrix
Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lomandra hystrix, commonly known as green mat-rush,[2] or creek mat-rush,[3] is a perennial, rhizomatous a tall herb of Northern NSW to Noth Queensland wet tropics,Australia.
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Taxonomy
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
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]
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