Pimelea phylicoides

Shrub usually 20–50 cm high; young stems densely hairy; nodes prominent. Leaves alternate or opposite, shortly petiolate, narrowly ovate to elliptic, 3–8 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, concolorous, medium to dark bluish-green, with scattered to moderately dense covering of fine white hairs on undersurface, glabrous above; margins minutely irregular to almost toothed. Inflorescence terminal, a 3–18-flowered head; receptacle well-developed; involucral bracts 3–6, sessile, ovate, 3–9 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, hairy outside, glabrous inside, persistent. Flowers bisexual, densely hairy outside, white; floral tube 5–8 mm long, ovary-portion with longer hairs than above, style-portion longer than ovary-portion, sparsely hairy inside, circumscissile above ovary; sepals spreading, 2–4 mm long, glabrous inside; pedicel hairy; stamens shorter than sepals; anthers opening towards centre of flower; style exserted. Fruit dry, enclosed. Flowers Jun.–Feb.