Lomandra hystrix, commonly known as green mat-rush,[2] or creek mat-rush,[3] is a perennial, rhizomatous herb found throughout eastern Australia.

[1][4] In 1937 Lilian Ross Fraser and Joyce Winifred Vickery gave it its current name of Lomandra hystrix.

[2] The starchy, fleshy bases of the leaves are edible, tasting of raw peas.

Even when the roots are exposed it will cling tenaciously in poor soils.

[2] This species is closely related to L. longifolia; the inner bract and flowers are similar, but it differs in leaf apex, lack of conspicuous marginal sclerenchyma bands on leaves, and in inflorescence branching.