Lomandra hystrix

This 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]

The 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]