Grass Tree at Bawley Point, NSW
Identification history
| Xanthorrhoea sp. | 8 Jan 2025 | marcycad | ||
| Xanthorrhoea sp. | 26 Jun 2018 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Xanthorrhoea australis | 20 May 2018 | Marg |
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5 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
26 Jun 2018
With no trunk and at that location it is almost certain to be X. concava, but I'm not willing to confirm it. They're a nasty group to ID, even with the plant in the hand.
BettyDonWood
wrote:
27 Jun 2018
Xanthorrhoea australis has a definite trunk above ground. It is extraordinarily difficult to ID the species with underground trunks, even in flower and with the bracts around the flowers and between the flowers intact. One of the characters in the Plantnet key is th relative length of flower stalk and flower spike.
JackieMiles
wrote:
27 Jun 2018
Which means that a whole of plant shot showing whether there is a trunk or not and the stalk/spike length is a good thing, though still doesn't guarantee you an ID. Habitat may also be useful eg if it is in heath, especially if poorly drained, it is likely to be resinosa. X. australis is more likely in elevated, rocky sites (but not invariably).
marcycad
wrote:
8 Jan 2025
The absence of prominent cluster bracts over the flower spike rules out X. australis, the upper aspect of the leaf appears flattened to concave in some, this is also inconsistent with X. australis, therefore this is likely either X. resinosa or the affiliated X. concava.
Location information
- Maps Bawley Point Bushcare
- Places Bawley Point, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- Marg Recorded by
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Marg Other Trees Plants South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Xanthorrhoea sp. Scientific name
- Grass Tree Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
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In flower
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