Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pimelea treyvaudii
Common name
Grey rice-flower
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and rocky slopes. Grows in extensive stands after hot fires. ACT. West and north from the ACT towards the Hume Highway. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m high or sprawling, Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, often alternating up the stems immediately below the flowers, 0.6–3.7 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, hairless, medium green on upper surface, similar or paler below, veins prominent below. Flowers bisexual, white, 12–20 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes each 3–5 mm long. Flowers in spherical heads of 30-150+ flowers, subtended by 8–11 leaf-like bracts 0.6–1.5 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, green, sometimes purplish, with cream markings at the base, hairless outside, hairy inside, with hairy margins, curving down at the fruiting stage. Flower clusters attached to the dome shaped expanded top of the flower stalk. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~treyvaudii (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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