Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pimelea stricta
Common name
Gaunt Rice-flower
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Where found
Woodland, mallee, and shrubland. Mostly Western Slopes, rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high. Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5–3.5 cm long, 1–4.5 mm wide, hairless, both surfaces the same colour, usually medium green. Flowers bisexual, white to yellow, occasionally pink, tubular, 10–15 mm long, with 4 spreading lobes each 2–4 mm long. Flowers in 9–37 flowered heads, subtended by 4 leaflike bracts, medium green and often partly yellowish or reddish, each 0.5–1.3 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, inner surface with a thick covering of long hairs, outer surface hairless, margins often fringed. Flowers mainly Aug.–Nov.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~stricta (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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