Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pimelea glauca
Common name
Smooth rice-flower
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassland, rocky areas, and sand dunes. Widespread, Coastal mainly in the Sydney area.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high or spreading to prostrate. Stems hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 0.3–2 cm long, 1–7 mm wide, hairless, usually bluish green, tips bent downwards and mucronate. Flowers bisexual, creamy-white to white, 10–15 mm long, tubular, hairy with short hairs except for the base, with 4 lobes each 2-4 mm long. Flowers in heads of 7–35 flowers, subtended by 4 leaflike bracts 0.6–1.6 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, green, hairless outside, the inner bracts densely to sparsely hairy inside, margins fringed. Flowers mainly winter-summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~glauca (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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