Common name: Tall Rice Flower
Pimelea ligustrina subsp. ligustrina Labill. APNI* 
Description: Peduncles glabrous, or almost so; bracts glabrous on inner surface, hairy on outer surface. Bracts green, sometimes ciliate on the margins, usually reflexed in fruit; receptacle commonly elongating in fruit. Shrub to 2 m high in open forest. Leaves variable in shape, mostly 20–60 mm long. Peduncles glabrous or almost so. Bracts 4–15 mm long, 2–10 mm wide. Flowers 15–130 per head; pedicels often golden-hairy.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in froest below 1400 m alt.
NSW subdivisions: NC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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