Citation: Smith, Sp. Bot. New Holl. 3:31 (1794) subsp. linifolia.

Synonymy: P. spathulata Labill., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1:9 (1805).

Common name: Slender riceflower.

Description:
Erect shrub to 1.5 m, glabrous except for the inflorescence; leaves narrow-ovate or narrow-elliptic or elliptic, 3-32 mm long, 1-7 mm wide, acute or cuspidate.

Heads terminal, sometimes nodding; peduncles 1-37 mm long, glabrous; involucral bracts 4, narrow-ovate to ovate or elliptic, 4-19 mm long, 2.5-10 mm wide, acute or cuspidate, glabrous outside, glabrous or bearing short fine hairs inside; pedicels hairy; flowers bisexual or female, 7-44 in each head, white, 10-20 mm long; perianth glabrous inside, covered outside often densely with short fine hairs or woolly or silky ones and with additional long coarse hairs on the persistent base, circumscissile above the ovary after flowering.

Seed ovoid, glabrous, black, foveate with the pits in rows.

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 320; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 506.

Distribution:  Poisonous.   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

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