Xanthorrhoea sp.

Grass Tree at Bawley Point, NSW

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Identification history

Xanthorrhoea sp.	8 Jan 2025	marcycad
Xanthorrhoea sp.	26 Jun 2018	BettyDonWood
Xanthorrhoea australis	20 May 2018	Marg

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3 comments

Marg wrote:

27 Jun 2018

Thanks Jackie and BettyDon. I had no idea they were so tricky to i.d.

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.

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.

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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
In flower

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