Flowers close up. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Spiked Rice-flower, Annual Rice-flower

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Notes

Shrub or annual or biennial forb to 75cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, sometimes almost opposite each other, 0.3-1.9cm long, 0.5-3mm wide, flat and narrow, hairless or sparsely hairy.  Flowers yellow with white hairs, tubular, with 4 lobes, in cylindrical racemes at the tops of the stems.

Differs from Pimelea simplex in that the flower clusters are 3-11.5cm long.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 508

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