Tussocks sparse; stems short with leaves c. 40 cm long, or stems extended and decumbent with leaves c. 20 cm long. Leaves flat, rather thin, 2-4 mm wide, bluish-grey when dry; apex rounded-acute or rounded-truncate; sheath margins intact, whitish, or slightly lacerated in age and brownish. Inflorescence often nearly as long as leaves with well-spaced, separate flowers on fine axes; scape approximately equalling rachis. Male inflorescence with opposite or whorled branches. Female inflorescence similar, less well developed. Bracts as in Lomandra cylindrica . Male flowers c. 2-2.5 mm long; pedicel spreading to recurved, c. 2 mm long. Female flowers 4-6 mm long; pedicel 0.5 mm long. Sepals and petals as in L. cylindrica but thin, creamy-white.