Genus Xanthorrhoea

Group: 

Monocotyledon

Family: 

Xanthorrhoeaceae

Genus description: 

Grass-trees are monoecious, flowers small, white, in a tall cylindrical spike, narrow often wiry leaves from the summit of a trunk that may be wholly underground or up to 6m.

Xanthorrhoea australis
Common names:
     Austral Grass-tree
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Xanthorrhoea minor
Common names:
     Small Grass-tree
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