''Pimelea neoanglica'', commonly known as poison pimelea or scanty riceflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to inland areas of eastern Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of greenish-yellow flowers.

Description

''Pimelea neoanglica'' is an erect, dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has slender,

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stems. Its leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in compact clusters of 3 to 24, usually with 2 narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic, green involucral bracts long at the base. The flowers are greenish-yellow, the male flowers about long and the female flowers about long. Flowering occurs in most months, but with a peak in September and October.

Taxonomy

''Pimelea neoanglica'' was first formally described in 1983 by S. Threlfall in the journal ''

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Distribution and habitat

Poison pimelea mostly grows in clay soils on the Great Dividing Range and nearby ranges of eastern Australia from Carnarvon Station Reserve in Queensland to

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in New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17582306 neoanglica Malvales of Australia Dioecious plants Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1983