Pimelea linifolia (Slender Rice Flower)

Pimelea linifolia ssp linifolia, Burnum Burnum Reserve, Jannali NSW

Photograph by John Tann from Sydney. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Slender Rice-flower, Pimelea linifolia, sometimes with pink flowers. Morton National Park, NSW

Photograph by John Tann from Sydney. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

SLENDER RICE FLOWER FACTS

distribution map showing range of Pimelea linifolia in Australia

Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

Common Name
Slender Rice Flower

Description
The Slender Rice Flower is a small shrub growing to 1.5 m tall. Some plants have prostrate habit. The leaves are narrow and grow to about 30 mm long and 7mm wide. The plant flowers in spring. The flowers are white (sometimes pale pink) and produced in hemispherical flower heads about 25 mm in diameter. Each individual flower has four sepals that look like petals.

Habitat
wet sclerophyll forest, rainforest margins

Distribution
The Slender Rice Flower is found in eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, Victoria., south east of South Australia, Tasmania.,

Growth Characteristics
Height: 0.5m - 1.5m

Classification

Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Thymelaeaceae
Genus:	Pimelea
Species:	linifolia
Common Name:	Slender Rice Flower

Relatives in same Genus
  Pimelea ciliata
  Pimelea ferruginea
  Pimelea flava ssp Flava
  Pimelea humilis
  Pimelea physodes
  Pimelea spectabilis