Tussocks sparse. Leaves channelled to almost semiterete with narrow marginal bands and coarse venation, usually c. 40 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, glabrous; apex acute; sheath margins lacerated, dark purplish brown. Inflorescence with several irregularly alternate branches (sometimes a few whorled); flowers separate, well-spaced. Male inflorescence often nearly as long as leaves; axes smooth. Female inflorescence smaller; axes sometimes papillose. Bracts as in Lomandra cylindrica , but inner bract absent. Male flowers usually 2.5-3 mm long, to 4 mm diam., yellow; sepals thinner and shorter than the fleshy petals; pedicel 3-5 mm long. Female flowers on pedicel 1-2 mm long.