Xanthorrhoea caespitosa

Stem almost totally subterranean, branched underground. Leaves forming an uneven open tuft, depressed-obtriangular, sometimes concave above, 2.3–7.0 mm wide, 1–2 mm thick, grey, glaucous or green. Inflorescence with flower-bearing part 45–65 cm long, 22–28 mm diam., 0.3–0.5 times as long as non-flowering axis which is 90–120 cm long and 10.0–17.5 mm diam.; bracts around flowers prominent, narrow-triangular. Sepals with apex acute, without an adaxial projection; petals hairy in distal portion, with a large adaxial projection. Flowers Oct.–Dec.