Stats

Lifespan

Perennial

Size

Small

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Temperate forest

Range

Eastern Australia

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Seeds

Defense

Spines

Status

Uncommon

About

This perennial herb grows in dense, grassy clumps across eastern Australia. Its leaves can reach 80 centimeters in length and split at the tips into two sharp points.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asparagaceae

Genus

Lomandra

Species

Lomandra longifolia