Spiny Rice-flower
Pimelea spinescens ssp. spinescens
Low stunted shrub with spiny branchlets. Crowded blue-green oval leaves. Tiny pale yellow hairless tubular flowers.
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| Distinctive Features | The only Pimelea species to have spines. |
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| Biology | Perennial. Well-drained soils on basalt. |
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| Phylum | Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants) |
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| Class | Magnoliopsida (Flowering Plants) |
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Nationally threatened. Only a few remant populations on the western basalt plains in Vic remaining.
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| Similar Species | P. spinescens subsp. pubiflora has flowers that are hairy on the outer surface, whereas those of the P. spinescens subsp. spinescens are hairless. |
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