Cluster-headed Mat-rush at Lakesland, NSW
Identification history
| Lomandra longifolia subsp. exilis | 29 Aug 2025 | JaneR | ||
| Lomandra fluviatilis | 26 Aug 2025 | JaneR | ||
| Lomandra fluviatilis | 26 Aug 2025 | JaneR | ||
| Lomandra fluviatilis | 22 Aug 2025 | JaneR |
Identify this sighting
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
Beside trail, on gully wall. In flower, spiney. Similar to Lomandra longifolia, but not robust, has much narrower leaves, is finer (rather than robust), tussock is partly drooping (rather than erect), and inflorescence is shorter: leaf apex has two teeth.
5 comments
JasonPStewart
wrote:
28 Aug 2025
JaneR . Good arvo !
_Lomandra longifolia_ subsp. _exilis_ ?
These leaves look wider than _Lomandra fluviatilis_ leaves .
Please check, for example the Flora of Vic. online VicFlora botanical key:
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2128
.
All the best,
Jason Stewart .
Gimuy [Cairns] at the moment .
_Lomandra longifolia_ subsp. _exilis_ ?
These leaves look wider than _Lomandra fluviatilis_ leaves .
Please check, for example the Flora of Vic. online VicFlora botanical key:
https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/key/2128
.
All the best,
Jason Stewart .
Gimuy [Cairns] at the moment .
JasonPStewart
wrote:
28 Aug 2025
@plants Good arvo. Yeah i read and consider your comment.
Except this plant's inflorescences and infructescences have spines, which _Lomandra multiflora_ inflorescences and infructescences do not have.
Except this plant's inflorescences and infructescences have spines, which _Lomandra multiflora_ inflorescences and infructescences do not have.
JaneR
wrote:
29 Aug 2025
Thanks for all inputs. Now re-ID to Lomandra longifolia subsp exilis.
Its not multiflora (which has no spines on inflorescence, and has a rounded leaf tip); and its not L. fluviatilis (leaves too wide, and wrong habitat: thanks Plants).
In my original naming, I was influenced by the channelled leaf, the short and quite purplish colouring, and the location on the gully wall (which I mistakenly treated as an extension of its stream channel habitat).
Its not multiflora (which has no spines on inflorescence, and has a rounded leaf tip); and its not L. fluviatilis (leaves too wide, and wrong habitat: thanks Plants).
In my original naming, I was influenced by the channelled leaf, the short and quite purplish colouring, and the location on the gully wall (which I mistakenly treated as an extension of its stream channel habitat).
JasonPStewart
wrote:
29 Aug 2025
All good !
I gather the re-naming eventually went through, good news.
I have noticed sometimes when many sightings' uploads happen all at once, we have to wait to get our sightings' uploads through. Presumably sometimes the same happens with re-namings.
Yesterday arvo i waited for a few hours, comfortably doing other tasks, to upload two _Fagraea_ trees' species sightings of my own.
The busy coming spring season in southern parts of this continent !
Towards peaking flowering season and starting to get hot days 30º C+ again here in the north of this continent !
The old good saying we all know: Patience is a virtue !
I gather the re-naming eventually went through, good news.
I have noticed sometimes when many sightings' uploads happen all at once, we have to wait to get our sightings' uploads through. Presumably sometimes the same happens with re-namings.
Yesterday arvo i waited for a few hours, comfortably doing other tasks, to upload two _Fagraea_ trees' species sightings of my own.
The busy coming spring season in southern parts of this continent !
Towards peaking flowering season and starting to get hot days 30º C+ again here in the north of this continent !
The old good saying we all know: Patience is a virtue !
Location information
- Coordinates 150.505936-34.245456
- Altitude 360.4m
- Places Lakesland, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 18 Aug 2025 11:52 AM Recorded on
- JaneR Recorded by
-
Collections
JaneR NatureMapr Southern Highlands Rushes, Sedges & Mat Rushes Plants Lomandra longifolia subsp. exilis
Additional information
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Species information
- Lomandra longifolia subsp. exilis Scientific name
- Cluster-headed Mat-rush Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 360.37m to 1328.35m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes