Cheynes, WA

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These are definitively Kingia australis, and the first images of this species on this site. With the absence of the characteristic flowers, Kingia can be differentiated from Xanthorrhoea by the leaves and crown shape. The leaves are characteristically softer and more flexible than the tough sclerophyllous leaves of Xanthorrhoea, because of this there is a subtle difference in the crown shape of Kingia in the way the leaves arch and weep down to a higher degree comparable with that of Xanthorrhoea. Xanthorrhoea leaves in the apex tend to be more rigid and are held in a more upright straighter fashion.
The monopodial trunk of Kingia is also usually more uniform than the typically gnarled trunks of Xanthorrhoea.
In addition, there are no Xanthorrhoea species that produce the almost silver-like sheen on the leaves of Kingia as the result of the very fine white hairs on Kingia leaves, as seen here. Xanthorrhoea leaves are glabrous, never hirsute. The morphological characteristics of these specimens comply more readily with Kingia that with Xanthorrhoea.

This observation is still inaccurately listed as Xanthorrhoea. Please update this observation so to prevent incorrect data on this site.

I agree with Luke

I think these are most likely X. platyphylla though X. preissii possible