Plant with decumbent or erect, elongated stems, or tufted with short erect stems. Leaves 3.5-70 cm long, 0.3-2.5 mm wide; margins microscopically scaberulous; apex 2-or 3-toothed, 1 or both lateral teeth exceeding the central. Male inflorescence variable in size but usually rather small, branched or unbranched; scape flattened; flowers in whorled clusters or few-flowered alternate clusters. Female inflorescence often dissimilar, smaller, sometimes virtually concealed among leaf bases, often unbranched. Cluster bracts pointed, conspicuous or inconspicuous. Bract and inner bract (except for colour) and flowers as in Lomandra longifolia .