Pimelea linifolia

Shrub, prostrate to 1.5 m high; stems glabrous; nodes prominent. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, narrow, mostly elliptic to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 3–40 mm long, 1–9 mm wide, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, erect or pendulous, a 7–many-flowered head; involucral bracts 4, sessile, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic to ovate, 7–17 mm long, 3–11 mm wide, glabrous outside, glabrous or partially hairy inside, green or reddish. Flowers bisexual or female, antrorse-hairy outside, glabrous or hairy inside, usually white, sometimes pink or pale yellow; floral tube 7–16 mm long, style-portion longer than ovary-portion, circumscissile above ovary; sepals spreading, 1–5 mm long, glabrous inside; pedicel hairy; stamens shorter than or rarely shortly exceeding sepals; anthers opening laterally or somewhat laterally; style exserted. Fruit dry, enclosed.