Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pimelea bracteata
Common name
A Rice Flower
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Where found
Wet heath and stream banks. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park and north to west of Batlow. Occasionally farther east.
Notes
Shrub to 2 m high. Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.5–2 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, hairless, medium green, often with a purplish tinge above, paler below. Flowers bisexual, pale yellow, 12–17 mm long, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes each 2–3 mm long. Flowers drooping, in heads of 15–26 flowers, subtended by 6–8 leaflike hairless bracts, each 1–1.9 cm long, 7–15 mm wide, yellow-green, often tinged with purple or red. Flowers Nov.–Feb.
Critically endangered NSW.
NSW threatened species profile: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=20364 (accessed 4 May 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~bracteata (accessed 4 May 2021)
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