taxonID	type	description	language	source
8D1BC00EFF83FFFFFCAC10184BA1F8BD.taxon	distribution	Distribution — Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Western Province); Australia (Queensland). Habitat & Ecology — Lomandra decomposita grows in open woodland. Flowering and fruiting: August. Specimens examined. AUSTRALIA, J. R. Clarkson 4305 (staminate: BRI), [Australia, Queensland] Coconut Creek, c. 37 km north north east Aurukun; B. Gray 08928 (staminate: BRI, CANB), [Australia, Queensland] Portlands Roads Road, 2 km east Brown Creek; G. Sankowsky 2078 (pistillate: BRI), [Australia, Queensland] Chillii Beach to Cape Weymouth Road. – NEW GUINEA, C. E. Ridsdale NGF 33574 (pistillate: A, BRI, CANB, K, L, LAE), [Papua New Guinea, Western Division] near Weam. Notes — Stevens (1978) described this species in detail for New Guinea under the name Lomandra multiflora (R. Br.) Britten, which currently includes two subspecies L. multiflora (R. Br.) Britten subsp. multiflora and L. multiflora subsp. dura (F. Muell.) T. D. Macfarl. The former with staminate flower pedicels 3 – 8 mm long, that has a wide Australian distribution from north Queensland south to Victoria, but it is not present from Cape York Peninsula (Wang & Bean 2017). The latter, with staminate flowers ± sessile, is restricted to South Australia (Lee & Macfarlane 1986). Brown (1810) named Xerotes decomposita R. Br. based on specimens collected by Banks & Solander from Endeavour River, north Queensland in 1770. This species name was regarded as representing part of the variation in X. multiflora by Bentham (1878) and was retained as a synonym by Britten (1905) when he made the combination Lomandra multiflora. Domin (1915), however, reclassified it to a variety, Xerotes multiflora R. Br. var. decomposita, but this was rejected by Lee (1966). It was subsequently included in L. multiflora subsp. multiflora (Lee & Macfarlane 1986). A new combination Lomandra decomposita was eventually made in recognising it as a separate species by Wang & Bean (2017), with this name applying to previous records of L. multiflora in Cape York Peninsula, as well as in other locations of northeast Queensland (Wang & Bean 2017) and southern New Guinea. It is noticeable that the New Guinea population of Lomandra decomposita has shorter staminate pedicels (up to 1 mm long) than that of the Queensland populations (pedicels usually 1.5 – 2.5 mm long), but all other features for the plant in New Guinea are consistent with typical plants from northeast Queensland.	en	Wang, J., Macfarlane, T. D. (2024): A taxonomic revision of the genus Lomandra Labill. (Asparagaceae: Lomandroideae) in New Guinea and lectotypification of the name Xerotes banksii R. Br. Blumea 69: 89-92, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2024.69.01.08, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2024.69.01.08
