Spinifex longifolius
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Spinifex longifolius, commonly known as beach spinifex, is a perennial grass that grows in sandy regions along the seacoast. It also lives in most deserts around Australia.
Description
It grows as a tussock from 30 centimetres to a metre high, and up to two metres wide. It has long flat leaves, and green or brown flowers.[1]
It is similar in appearance to S. littoreus, but that species has hard, sharp leaves capable of drawing blood, whereas the leaves of S. longifolius are a good deal softer.[2]
Taxonomy
It was first published by Robert Brown in his 1810 Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.[3][4]
Distribution and habitat
It occurs on coastal dunes of white sand, in Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand.[5][6] In Australia, it occurs from Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia, north and east to the western edge of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland.[7]
Aboriginal uses
The Noongar people of southwest Western Australia used the juice from the young tips of the plant to drip into eyes as a relief for conjunctivitis.[8]
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- Panicoideae
- Bunchgrasses of Asia
- Bunchgrasses of Australasia
- Flora of Thailand
- Flora of Malesia
- Flora of New Guinea
- Flora of the Northern Territory
- Flora of Queensland
- Flora of South Australia
- Angiosperms of Western Australia
- Plants described in 1810
- Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)