Tussock often large and robust; stems sometimes extending to 10 cm. Leaves spreading, flat to slightly concavo-convex, usually 25-45 cm long, to 3.5 mm wide, glaucous; apex acute to acuminate; sheath-margins gradually narrowed upwards, lacerated, lattice-like, whitish to brown. Male inflorescence several-branched; scape clearly exposed up to 12 cm above leaf bases, or rarely concealed; rachis 6-15 cm long. Female inflorescence c. 1.5 cm diam., subsessile. Bracts whitish. Flowers yellow, becoming flushed with, or entirely, purple-black. Bracts and flowers otherwise as in Lomandra obliqua .
Grows in palm and eucalypt woodland and forest, in sandy, granitic, lateritic and bauxitic soils.
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