Plant tufted, robust. Leaves flat, rather thin, 40-80 cm long, 4-12 mm wide; apex usually acute, with small lateral teeth; sheath margins intact or splitting coarsely with age, brown or whitish. Male inflorescence unbranched or rarely with short branches at lowest nodes or the rachis forked; scape 2 or more times longer than rachis, flattened; flower clusters whorled. Female inflorescence unbranched, the rachis shorter in relation to the scape, otherwise similar to male inflorescence. Cluster bracts conspicuous, pointed, usually longer than flowers; bract and inner bract golden brown or whitish. Flowers as in Lomandra longifolia .