''Xanthorrhoea brevistyla'' is a species of grasstree of the genus ''

Xanthorrhoea ''Xanthorrhoea'' () is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants endemic to Australia. Species are known by the name grass tree. Description All are perennials and have a secondary thickening meristem in the stem. Many, but not all, sp ...

'' native to Western Australia.

Description

The perennial grass tree typically grows to a height of usually with no trunk but with a scape of and the flower spike to . It blooms between October and December producing white flowers.

Classification

The species was first formally described by

Desmond Herbert Desmond Andrew Herbert (17 June 1898 – 8 September 1976) was an Australian botanist. The son of a fruit-grower, Herbert was born in Diamond Creek, Victoria in 1898; was educated at Malvern State School and the Melbourne Church of England Gr ...

in 1921 as part of the work ''The genus Xanthorrhoea in Western Australia'' as published in ''Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia''.

Distribution

It has a limited distribution in the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions of Western Australia. It extends from Narrogin in the north to Cranbrook in the south where it grows in sandy-clay soils over

laterite Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15612106 Asparagales of Australia brevistyla Angiosperms of Western Australia Plants described in 1921 Endemic flora of Southwest Australia