Xanthorrhoea johnsonii A.T.Lee

Trunk 10 cm to 5 m long; stem and crown usually 1; young leaves in spreading upright tuft; old leaves often strongly reflexed. Leaves ±quadrate-rhombic to transverse-rhombic in T.S., 1-2.5 mm wide, 0.8-1.8 mm thick, green, not glaucous. Scape 75-190 cm long, 7-20 mm diam. Spike 0.75-1.25 as long as scape, 20-120 cm long, rarely to 225 cm, 20-40 mm diam. Cluster-bracts prominent only in lower portion of spike, acute to narrowly triangular, subglabrous to moderately hirsute. Packing-bracts shortly acute to acute, the distal 1/3 subglabrous to moderately hirsute. Sepals shortly acute, beak absent or very short, sometimes with proboscis, often with median abaxial ridge, glabrous to subglabrous. Petals erect to recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except some hairs abaxially at apex.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in open forests.