Tussock 5-10 cm diam. Leaves usually flat, erect or often curved to one side, c. 5-15 cm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, blue-green, scarcely glaucous; apex obtuse or truncate, occasionally shortly acute or with a minute central point; sheath margins gradually narrowed at top, rather tardily and coarsely lacerated, white when young, often dark brown when old. Male inflorescence usually shorter than leaves and unbranched; scape usually shortly exposed above leaf bases. Female inflorescence subsessile. Bracts and flowers as in Lomandra obliqua .