Pimelea stricta

Pimelea stricta, commonly known as gaunt rice-flower,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia.

It is an erect shrub with narrowly elliptic or linear leaves, and compact heads of densely hairy, creamy-white to yellow flowers surrounded by 4 egg-shaped involucral bracts.

The flowers are bisexual and borne in compact clusters of many hairy, creamy-white to yellow flowers, surrounded by 4 egg-shaped involucral bracts 5–13 mm (0.20–0.51 in) and 3–9 mm (0.12–0.35 in) wide.

[2][3][4][5] Pimelea stricta was first formally described in 1854 by Carl Meissner in the journal Linnaea from specimens collected in the Mount Lofty Ranges.

[7] Gaunt rice-flower mainly grows in open woodland, in mallee or on hills in sandy soils, and is found from north-eastern New South Wales through Victoria to the Eyre Peninsula and Flinders Ranges in south-eastern South Australia.