1	"Flowers surrounded by deeply fringed bracts such that inflorescence appears woolly"	2
1	"Flowers surrounded by entire or only slightly split bracts; inflorescence never appearing woolly"	3
2	"Leaves terete; basal sheath absent; inflorescence composed of 1–7 spike-like spherical clusters"	"Lomandra juncea"
2	"Leaves flat; basal sheath gradually tapering distally, intact or torn; inflorescence composed of 1 to several spike-like cylindric clusters"	"Lomandra leucocephala"
3	"Perianth of male flowers fused into a tube in the basal half; perianth of female flowers free for most of their length"	4
3	"Perianth parts of male and female flowers free to base"	6
4	"Leaf-sheath with margin ± abruptly tapered at top (approaching blade at an angle of c.45°), highly shredded, often brownish; leaf apex rounded-truncate or broadly acute; eastern Victoria"	"Lomandra glauca"
4	"Leaf-sheath with margin narrowing gradually at top (meeting with blade at an angle of c. 30°), not much shredded or much-shredded and whitish; leaf apex truncate to long-acute; chiefly western Victoria"	5
5	"Leaves mostly 15–40 cm long, straight, acute or long-rounded at apex, not dilated below, often waxy-glaucous; sheaths highly shredded; male inflorescences branched (in all but depauperate plants); mostly north-western Victoria"	"Lomandra collina"
5	"Leaves mostly 5–17 cm long, often curved, obtuse or truncate at apex (often slightly dilated just below apex), green to somewhat bluish but hardly waxy; sheaths usually not copiously shredded; male inflorescence unbranched (very rarely with 1 or 2 weak branches); mostly south and west from about Seymour"	"Lomandra nana"
6	"Male and female flowers grouped in whorls or many-flowered clusters"	7
6	"Male and female flowers arranged singly or in 2- or 3-flowered clusters"	9
7	"Leaf apex entire"	"Lomandra multiflora"
7	"Leaf apex with 2 or 3 points"	8
8	"Leaves up to 1.5 mm wide; bracts not or sometimes only slightly exceeding the flower clusters; far east only"	"Lomandra confertifolia"
8	"Leaves more than 2 mm wide; bracts usually exceeding flower clusters; widespread"	"Lomandra longifolia"
9	"Male flower with pedicel at least 1 mm long"	10
9	"Male flower sessile"	14
10	"Leaf apex with a distinct sinus between 2 sharp lateral points"	"Lomandra effusa"
10	"Leaf apex subacute or broadly acute to obtuse, entire, or with 1–3 minute points that are often soon eroded"	11
11	"Perianth segments of male flowers similar"	12
11	"Outer perianth segments of male flowers shorter and thinner-textured than inner"	13
12	"Leaves often gently twisted longitudinally, hemispherical, biconvex or concavo-convex to folded (in cross section), 1–2 mm wide"	"Lomandra micrantha"
12	"Leaves flat, not twisted, often with margin incurved or slightly concavo-convex, mostly 3–5 mm wide"	"Lomandra oreophila"
13	"Leaves terete or semiterete; far East Gippsland only"	"Lomandra cylindrica"
13	"Leaves flat, channelled, folded or inrolled"	"Lomandra filiformis"
14	"Leaf apex distinctly toothed"	"Lomandra confertifolia"
14	"Leaf apex entire or with 1–3 minute points"	"Lomandra sororia"