Citation: Threlfall, Telopea 2:55 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect plant to 0.5 m, mainly herbaceous but woody at the base; stems bearing scattered hairs which become fewer with age; leaves linear-elliptic, 3-15 mm long, 0.75-2.5 mm wide, acute, bearing scattered hairs on both surfaces or glabrous

Spikes terminal, up to 15 cm long at maturity, interrupted, with the rhachis more hairy than the stem; peduncle up to 16 mm long, bearing scattered hairs; involucral bracts absent; pedicels hairy; flowers bisexual, yellow-green, 3.5-5 mm long; perianth glabrous inside, densely covered outside with short antrorse hairs becoming appressed on the lobes, constricted at the neck, circumscissile above the ovary after flowering.

Seed ovoid or slightly pear-shaped, glabrous, black, foveate with the pits in rows.

	Pimelea elongata twig and flower.
Image source: fig 448d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  On heavy textured soils with a sandy upper layer. S.Aust.: LE, FR.   Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the year.

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

Biology: Poisonous.

Author: Not yet available