Xanthorrhoea acaulis (A.T.Lee) D.J.Bedford APNI* Synonyms: Xanthorrhoea australis subsp. acaulis A.T.Lee APNI*
Description: Trunk absent or rarely up to 0.3 m high, branched below ground; crowns 1-many, each a spreading tuft.
Leaves transverse-rhombic or depressed-obtrullate in T.S., rarely depressed-cuneate, c. 1.8 mm wide, c. 1 mm thick, greyish, glaucous.
Scape 0.25–0.45 cm long, 8–12 mm diam.; spike 0.2–0.75 times as long as scape, 10–25 cm long, 2.5–3.4 cm diam.; cluster bracts prominent, rarely obscure, narrow-triangular to subulate, subglabrous. Packing bracts acute, subglabrous. Outer tepals shortly acute, with central outer ridge, glabrous; beak usually very short, rarely to 0.9 mm long; proboscis often present. Inner tepals ± erect to recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except hirsute margins and apex.
Flowering: November–January
Distribution and occurrence: Grows mainly in dry sclerophyll forest in sandy soils to the west of the Great Divide, in the area bounded by Narrabri and Pilliga in the north and Grenfell in the south.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, CWS, NWP
Text by D. J. Bedford
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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