Xanthorrhoea resinosa

Stem absent or up to 0.6 m long. Leaves forming a ± erect spreading tuft, transversely rhombic or sometimes adaxially concave in cross-section, 2–4 mm wide, 1.5–2.5 mm thick, blue-green, glaucous. Inflorescence with flower-bearing part 60–120 cm long, 20–45 mm diam., ± as long as non-flowering axis which is 70–150(–220) cm long and 10–30 mm diam.; bracts around flowers obscure or prominent only at base of 'spike', shortly acute; bracts between flowers shortly acute, densely hairy. Sepals shortly acute, adaxial projection absent; petals (sometimes only one) hairy on midrib and apex of adaxial surface, sometimes with an adaxial projection from the apex. Flowers Aug.–Feb.