Pimelea simplex subsp. simplex

Herbaceous or semi-woody annual, 5–50 cm high; young stems hairy. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic to linear, 5–15 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, concolorous, mid green to dark bluish-green, usually sparsely covered in antrorse hairs. Inflorescence terminal, dense, compact or elongate at maturity, to 11 mm long, many-flowered; involucral bracts absent or not differentiated from leaves. Flowers bisexual, white to yellowish-green (sometimes with purplish sepals), densely hairy outside, glabrous inside; floral tube 2–5 mm long, style-portion poorly defined, circumscissile above ovary; sepals erect, 0.4–1 mm long; pedicel hairy; stamens inserted below sepals, almost sessile in throat; anthers opening somewhat laterally to more or less towards the centre of the flower; style not or little exserted. Fruit dry, enclosed.  Flowers Sep.–Nov.