Lomandra hystrix
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. TaxonomyThis 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] DescriptionThe 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] References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lomandra hystrix.
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