Citation: Labill., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1:9 (1805) subsp. ligustrina.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tall riceflower.

Description:
Erect shrub to 2 m; stems glabrous or bearing a few short hairs; leaves glabrous except when very young, oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic to broad-elliptic or ovate, 9.5-77 mm long, 1.5-28 mm wide, acute to obtuse.

Heads terminal; peduncles 5-60 mm long, glabrous or bearing a few short hairs; involucral bracts variable in number, elliptic to broad-elliptic or ovate, 4-15 mm long, 2-10 mm wide, acute, glabrous outside, inside surface bearing short fine hairs which may be silky-hoary, sometimes ciliate on the margins, usually reflexed in the fruiting condition; pedicels hairy; flowers bisexual or female, 50-130 in each head, creamy-white, 10.5-17.5 mm long; perianth glabrous inside, covered outside with short coarse hairs and with additional long rigid hairs on the persistent base, circumscissile above the ovary after flowering.

Seed ovoid, glabrous, black, foveolate with shallow pits.

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

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Dec.

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