English: Ciliate Phlebocary; Hairy-leaf Phlebocarya.
Name: Phlebocarya comes from the Greek for "veined nut".
Region: South western Australia.
Habitat: seasonally wet areas, swampy lands, or well-drained white/grey sandy soils within heath and woodland.
Content: Contains phenylphenalenones; fatty acids; hydrocarbons.
Use: ornamental plant in native gardens; land restoration; stabilize sandy soils.
BotanyType: herb; erennial, shortly rhizomatous, clumped grass-like herb.
Root: emerging from a short, woody underground rhizome; not bright red internally.
Stem: underground (the rhizome); it produces erect, slender flowering scapes (stalks) that are 5–35 cm long and usually glabrous (hairless).
Leaves: basal; flat; strappy; growing 25 to 65 cm long; margins are distinctive for having fine, eyelash-like hairs (cilia), especially toward the base or apex (hence the name ciliata).
Inflorescence: cymose panicle or cluster that is usually 1/3 to 2/3 as long as the leaves.
Flowers: small; radially symmetrical; white to cream; 6 equal tepals (approx. 3.5–6.5 mm long; 6 stamen; blooming from September to November.
Fruits: indehiscent nut; 3-celled but often only contains a single seed.
Seeds: small and dark; typically released only when the nut-like fruit decays or is disturbed, rather than through a splitting capsule.