Xanthorrhoea gracilis Endl.

Trunk none; stems branched underground; crowns 1 to many, each a loosely upright to decumbent tuft. Leaves irregularly rounded depressed-obtrullate to depressed-cuneate in T.S., usually c. 3 mm wide and 1.4-1.6 mm thick, green, not glaucous, hairy at base. Scape c. 150 cm long, c. 5 mm diam., hairy at base, glaucous above. Spike 0.1-0.2 times as long as scape, c. 11 cm long and 13-14 mm diam. Cluster-bracts obscure. Packing-bracts shortly acute, hirsute, dark brown. Sepals shortly acute, with very short beak, without proboscis, hirsute. Petals large and prominent, recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except short hairs at apex.

It grows in warm temperate places in Western Australia. It can grow in gravel and sand.

The flowers are soaked in water to produce a sweet drink. Once the flower stalk has sprouted it can be pulled out of the ground and the succulent white base chewed or ground up for the sweet white pulp.