Common Name

Thyme Rice-Flower

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1.5m tall, sometimes prostrate. Sometimes more or less spiny. Leaves opposite each other to crowded, 0.2-1.3cm long, 1-4mm wide, flat, hairless. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Flowers small (less than 3mm across), greenish yellow to yellow, tubular, with 4 lobes, in heads, usually at the ends of short lateral branches, often appearing to be at the bases of the leaves. Male flowers 2-17 per head, female flowers 2-10 per head, subtended by 4 leaf-like bracts. Fruit semi-succulent, green. Endangered NSW. Protected NSW.

Description (as Pimelea serpyllifolia) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 507

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~serpyllifolia

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10631