Mat Rush family
LAXMANNIACEAE in Australia

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ) & Christine Ashe

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Cordyline australis 'Purpurea' Purple Cabbage tree Sydney, June 2008	Cordyline fruticosa Ti Plant Sydney, August 2006	Cordyline stricta Narrow-leaved Palm Lily Wyee, November 2007	Lomandra confertifolia ssp. rubiginosa Rusty Mat Rush Sydney, April 2007
Lomandra effusa Scented Mat Rush Mungo, NSW Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat Rush Upper Beaconsfield, VIC Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Lomandra longifolia Spiny Headed Mat Rush Sydney, October 2006	Lomandra multiflora Many Flowered Mat Rush Eden, November, 1989

Lomandra species Another Mat Rush Sydney, October 2006

Many caterpillars of Australian Butterflies and Moths favour the leaves plants in LAXMANNIACEAE for their food, including:

Dispar compacta	Trapezites eliena	Trapezites heteromacula	Trapezites iacchoides	Trapezites iacchus	Trapezites lutea
Trapezites maheta	Toxidia peron	Trapezites petalia	Trapezites phigalioides	Trapezites phigalia	Trapezites praxedes
Trapezites sciron	Toxidia peron	Trapezites symmomus	Trapezites taori	Sabera dobboe	Synemon laeta

Australian butterflies

Plant Classes

Australian moths

(updated 28 December 2009)