Lomandra hystrix
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|taxon = Lomandra hystrix
|image = Lomandra hystrix PA191155 08.jpg
|image2 = Lomandra hystrix PA191155 02.jpg
|authority = (R.Br.) L.R.Fraser & Vickery
|synonyms = Xerotes hystrix {{small|R.Br.}}
}}
Lomandra hystrix, commonly known as green mat-rush,{{cite web |url=http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/01_cms/details_pop.asp?ID=194 |title=Lomandra hystrix (LOMANDRACEAE) Green matrush |accessdate=2015-01-27}} or creek mat-rush,{{cite web |author1=F.A.Zich |author2=B.P.M.Hyland |author3=T.Whiffen |author4=R.A.Kerrigan |author2-link=Bernard Hyland |year=2020 |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Lomandra_hystrix.htm |title=Lomandra hystrix |website=Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8) |publisher=Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government |access-date=20 June 2021}} is a perennial, rhizomatous a tall herb of Northern NSW to Noth Queensland wet tropics,Australia.
Taxonomy
This species was first described in 1810 by Robert Brown as Xerotes hystrix.{{APNI2|id=77083|name=Lomandra hystrix|access-date=2025-02-11}}{{cite Q|Q7247677|pages= 262|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36315539}} In 1937 Lilian Ross Fraser and Joyce Winifred Vickery gave it its current name of Lomandra hystrix.{{cite Q|Q132192339|pages= 286|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34904060}}
Description
The leaves are 80 cm to 100 cm long, and about 10 mm to 20 mm wide. It grows beside watercourses in upland and mountain rainforest.
The plant is often used for revegetation and erosion control. 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.
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.{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lomandra~hystrix |title=Lomandra hystrix (R.Br.) L.R.Fraser & Vickery |accessdate=2015-01-27 |publisher=Plantnet}}
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Category:Asparagales of Australia
Category:Flora of New South Wales
Category:Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Category:Flora of Victoria (state)
Category:Garden plants of Australia
Category:Plants described in 1810