Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 49:275 (1925).

Synonymy: P. ligustrina Labill. var. macrostegia Benth., Fl. Aust. 6:19 (1873).

Common name: None

Description:
Erect shrub to 1.5 m, glabrous except for the inflorescence; leaves coriaceous, narrow-elliptic to elliptic or obovate, 12.5-32.5 mm long, 3.5-13 mm wide, acute.

Heads terminal, nodding; peduncles 1.5-9 mm long, glabrous; involucral bracts 4-6, ovate to broad-ovate, 15-26 mm long, 8-20 mm wide, acute, thin, glabrous; pedicels hairy; flowers bisexual, 50-90 in each head, pale-yellow, 14.5-21 mm long; perianth tube slender, covered densely outside with long silky caducous hairs, bearing scattered hairs inside at the throat, circumscissile above the ovary after flowering; perianth lobes sparsely hairy outside, glabrous inside.

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

	Pimelea macrostegia
Image source: fig 448k in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Sandy scrubs. S.Aust.: KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Feb.

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

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