Citation: F. Muell., Linnaea 25:442 (1853).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect dioecious shrub to 1 m; stems covered with short fine appressed hairs; leaves narrow-elliptic to elliptic, 6-33 mm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, acute to obtuse, usually glabrous.

Heads terminal; peduncles 1-5 mm long, covered with short fine appressed hairs; involucral bracts 2 or 4, ovate or elliptic or occasionally narrow-ovate, 8.5-12 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, acute, glabrous, shortly petiolate; pedicels covered with short coarse hairs; male flowers 18-53 in each head, 7.5-9 mm long; female flowers 18-53 in each head, 5-7 mm long, slender, continued above the ovary, tardily circumscissile above the ovary after flowering; perianth white, bearing scattered hairs inside, covered outside with short hairs becoming coarser towards the base.

Seed narrow-ovoid, hooked at the apex, glabrous, black, foveate with the pits in rows.

	Pimelea petrophila twig and flower.
Image source: fig 449e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, SL.   .?Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available