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Family: Asphodelaceae
Xanthorrhoea thorntonii

Citation: Tate, Rep. Horn Exped. 3:191 (1896).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Trunk to 5m; crowns 1 or 2, young leaves more or less erect, old leaves sometimes strongly reflexed over the trunk or absent by abscission; leaves more or less quadrate-rhombic in section, 1.5-3 (usually 2-2.2) mm wide, 1.2-2.5 (usually c. 1.6) mm thick, usually slightly grey-green, glaucous.

Inflorescence 155-255 cm long; scape 40-100 (usually 60-80) cm long, 30-55 (usually 25-35) mm diam.; spike usually 1.5-2 times longer than the scape, 100-300 (usually 100-150) cm long, 40-92 (usually 50-60) mm diam.; cluster-bracts prominent in young spikes but usually only at the base of mature spikes, linear-triangular; packing bracts short-acute to triangular, glabrous to subglabrous, light-brown; outer perianth-segments short-acute, with a very short beak, glabrous; inner segments erect, with a proboscis and sometimes with a beak, chartaceous when mature, glabrous except for short hairs at the apex.

Fruits straight, 21-24 mm long, emerging 7-8 mm above the bracts; seeds 14-16 mm long, 5.5-9 mm wide.

Distribution:  Occurs in yellow to red sand, characteristically with Triodia spp.

S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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