Lomandra leucocephala

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lomandra leucocephala, photographed by Michael McBain — fig. c Michael McBain, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171341761

Lomandra leucocephala, photographed by Lukas Clews — fig. d Lukas Clews, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155818033

Lomandra leucocephala, photographed by Greg Tasney — fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 120911126

Lomandra leucocephala, photographed by T. Hammer — fig. f T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171537689

Lomandra leucocephala, photographed by Rosalie Lawrence — fig. h Rosalie Lawrence, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153605052

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Lomandra leucocephala, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory	NTA
Queensland	QLD
South Australia	SOA
Victoria	VIC
Western Australia	WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 41 in flower of 50 examined

86%

100%

67%

80%

Proportion of examined Lomandra leucocephala in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	2	2	too few examined
Mar	1	3	too few examined
Apr	6	7	86%	49% to 97%
May	15	15	100%	80% to 100%
Jun	4	4	too few examined
Jul	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Aug	4	4	too few examined
Sep	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Oct	1	1	too few examined
Nov	0	2	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Lomandra leucocephala observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 41 of 50 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Xerotes apiculata Gand.
Xerotes filamentosa Brongn.
Xerotes fribrillosa Gand.
Xerotes leucocephala R.Br.
Xerotes typhina Lindl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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