Pimelea micrantha
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| Pimelea micrantha | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. micrantha |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea micrantha | |
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Pimelea micrantha, commonly known as silky rice-flower[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a much-branched undershrub with narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and compact clusters or heads of densely hairy, creamy white flowers.
Pimelea micrantha is a much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–40 cm (3.9–15.7 in) and has densely hairy stems. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 1–11 mm (0.039–0.433 in) long and 0.8–4.5 mm (0.031–0.177 in) wide, on a short petiole. The flowers are borne in leaf axils or on the ends of branches in compact clusters or heads of 3 to 13 flowers on a peduncle about 1.5 mm (0.059 in) long with leaf-like involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are creamy-white and densely hairy on the outside, the floral tube 2.5–3 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to December and the fruit contains a pear-shaped nut.[2][3][4][5]