Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pimelea humilis
Common name
Dwarf Rice-flower, Common Rice-flower
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Where found
Dry open forest, woodland, heath, and sand dunes. Coast south of Tathra. Along the NSW/Vic border. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 0.5 m high. Young stems densely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 0.5–1.6 cm long, 1–9 mm wide, hairless, medium green, often slightly paler below. Flowers bisexual or female, whitish to creamy white, mostly 13–19 mm long, female flowers shorter, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes, each 1–5 mm long. Flowers in 12–52 flowered heads subtended by 4 or 6 leaflike bracts, each 0.6–1.8 cm long, 3–11 mm wide, hairless on the outer surface, inner surface hairy with short hairs, the hairs sometimes restricted to the midvein, yellow at the base, green above. Flowers Sept.–Jan.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~humilis (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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