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Pimelea spinescens
Pimelea spinescens is a small, spreading, spiny undershrub native to western and central Victoria, Australia, growing in grassland and open shrubland. It is a slow, long-lived native plant best suited to a dry, open, sunny site with excellent drainage.
Pimelea spinescens, commonly known as plains rice-flower, spiny rice-flower or prickly pimelea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Victoria. It is a spreading undershrub with elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and heads of white, cream-coloured or yellow flowers surrounded by 4 elliptic, leaf-like involucral bracts.
Subspecies pubiflora was thought to be extinct since it had not been collected since 1901, but was rediscovered in 1980, growing in grassy woodland in the Wimmera region of Victoria. Subspecies spinescens grows mainly in grassland and open shrubland between Melbourne, Horsham and Echuca.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea spinescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
