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Yellow Rice Flower

Pimelea flava ssp. flava

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

A small shrub 1metre tall. Multiple long spindly stems with alternating pairs of small teardrop shaped leaves over their full-length . The flowers were in clusters of about 10 at the tips of the stems with each flower about 6mm wide.

Habitat:

Found in an open dry eucalyptus forest.

Notes:

Some areas of the forest had large patches of this. <br> Thank you Chris Clarke for identifying it.<br> Threatened species in Tasmania https://www.threatenedspecieslink.tas.gov.au/Pages/Pimelea-flava-subsp-… <br> Also found in Victoria and South Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni…

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