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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Thymelaeaceae
Pimelea flava ssp. dichotoma

Citation: Threlfall, Brunonia 5:169 (1982).

Synonymy: P. dichotoma Schldl., Linnaea 20:581 (1847).

Common name: Diosma riceflower.

Description:
Shrub to 1 m; involucral bracts not markedly larger than the leaves.

Flowers 9-28 in each head; perianth white, glabrous at the base, tardily circumscissile above the ovary in female flowers.

image of FSA2_Pimelea_fla_dic.jpg Pimelea flava susp. dichotoma twig and flower.
Image source: fig 448f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 505.

Distribution:  On light soils in malices; in drier situations than subsp. flava.

S.Aust.: FR, EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.

Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

Biology: Poisonous.

Author: Not yet available


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