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Xanthorrhoea acaulis
Xanthorrhoea acaulis is a species of grasstree native to New South Wales, Australia.
From the article Xanthorrhoea acaulis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
X. acaulis generally has no trunk, or rarely one up to 30 cm in height, though it branches below ground and may have multiple crowns. The greyish to bluish-green leaves are about 1.8 mm wide and 1 mm thick. The scape is 25–45 cm long and 8–12 mm in diameter. The flower spike is 0.2–0.75 times as long as the scape, 10–25 cm long and 2.5–3.4 cm in diameter.
Range & habitat
This grasstree occurs in New South Wales west of the Great Dividing Range, between Narrabri and Pilliga in the north and Grenfell in the south, mainly on sandy soils in dry sclerophyll forest.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 895044.