Smooth Rice-flower

Smooth Rice-flower
Smooth Rice-flower
Smooth Rice-flower

Smooth Rice-flower

Pimelea glauca


Perennial. Grows from a thick, woody rootstock. Provides nectar for butterflies and other insects.


Details Description
Type
Shrub
Group
Rice-flower
Identifying Characteristics

Upright, multi-stemmed shrub to 60 cm tall and 60 cm wide. Pointed leaves opposite, decussate, blue-green, up to 20 mm long. Flowers small, tubular, white, in dense clusters at the top of stems. Flowers July-February.

Distinctive Features

Dense clusters of hairy, white, tubular flowers. Leaves are opposite and decussate in this Pimelia species.

Life Form Group
Shrub
Life Form Codes
Small Shrub (SS)
EVC types
EVC 55_63: Higher Rainfall Plains Grassy Woodland
Native Status
Native to Australia
Taxonomy
Phylum
Charophyta
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Malvales
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Pimelea
Species
glauca
Smooth Rice-flower
Occurs in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania.

Distribution maps indicate current and historic locations where species have been sighted.

Source: Atlas of Living Australia

Endangered Status
DEPI Advisory List
Not listed
FFG Act
Not listed
EPBC Act
Not listed

The conservation status of species is listed within Victoria and Australia.

The Department of Environment and Primary Industry (DEPI) Advisory List consists of non-statutory advisory lists of rare or threatened flora and fauna within Victoria.

The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (FFG Act) lists threatened species in Victoria. Under the Act, an Action Statement is produced for each listed species.

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is the Australian Government’s key piece of environmental legislation, listing nationally threatened native species and ecological communities.