Kangaroo Island Riceflower

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:18:00 GMT

Shrub usually 0.7–1.5 m high. Stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic, glabrous, bluish green on adaxial surface, paler abaxially; lamina 12–33 mm long, 3–13 mm wide or rarely some leaves smaller. Inflorescence pendulous, compact, many-flowered; involucral bracts 4 or 6, ovate or broadly ovate, usually 13–26 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, glabrous, pale green and occasionally partially purplish. Flowers bisexual, with deciduous hairs outside, pale yellow. Hypanthium 10–17 mm long, circumscissile, with dense long indumentum outside on ovary-portion, more sparsely hairy above; style-portion 8–14 mm long, hairy inside. Sepals 3–4 mm long. Stamens longer than sepals; anther locules semi-latrorse. Ovary distally hairy. Confined to Kangaroo Is., S.A. Occurs in sand, sometimes in rocky ground, in shrubland. Flowers Nov.–Feb.
Family: Thymelaeaceae Genus: Pimelea Species: macrostegia Main Flower Colour: White

Thymelaeaceae Pimelea macrostegia Wildflowers

Kangaroo Island Riceflower