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Shaded Rice-flower

Shaded Rice-flower

Pimelea umbratica

Family Thymelaeaceae

Rocky Ridge Shrub

About

Grows in shrubland above the rainforest line on the rocky slopes and ridges of Main Range National Park, part of a small distribution across southeastern Queensland and northeastern NSW.

How to spot it

Densely branched shrub 0.6-1.5m, narrowly elliptic to oblong leaves 3-26mm, white flowers 12-14mm long borne singly or in small groups, young stems covered in soft brownish hairs.

Found in

  • Main Range National Park

Source: Wikipedia - Pimelea umbratica

Photo: Murray Fagg (CC BY 3.0 AU) via Wikimedia Commons