Pimelea halophila Rye

Undershrub 1.5–15 cm high, often cushion-like. Stems glabrous. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, ±elliptic to almost circular, glabrous, concolorous, medium green to bluish green; lamina 0.4–3.2 mm long, 0.4–1.5 mm wide. Inflorescence terminal, compact, 4–20-flowered; involucral bracts usually 4, sessile, leaf-like in length and colour but sometimes wider, glabrous outside, slightly hairy inside. Flowers densely hairy outside, glabrous inside; pedicel hairy. Sepals white or cream. Male flowers: hypanthium 2–2.5 mm long; sepals 1–1.3 mm long; pistillode distally hairy. Female flowers: hypanthium 1.5–1.7 mm long, persistent; sepals 0.6–0.7 mm long, persistent; ovary glabrous. Fruit dry, enclosed.

Occurs on low islands in salt lakes, in saline soil in low open shrubland.