Australian Hollyhock
Flower
Ellura
Silky Riceflower
Slim summer look
 
                      
Silky Riceflower (Pimelea micrantha)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Hibisci (Malvales)
Family: Daphne (Thymelaeaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Silky Riceflower (Pimelea micrantha)
This Photo:     Lush spring garb
Other name: Curved Riceflower

Thank you Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere
An innocuous plant that, having identified it, is suddenly everywhere

It has the tiniest little yellow flowers that look like 10 pin bowling pins.
Through the year it changes appearance dramatically
Over summer it sheds a lot of leaves and looks totally different to it's luscious spring time cover.

Copyright © 2012-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 13-Sep-2012
This species is classed as NT (Near Threatened) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)