Pimelea alpina, the alpine rice-flower, is a small shrub species in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is endemic to Southern Australia. It has a prostrate or erect habit, growing up to 30 cm in height. Leaves are 3 to 13 mm long and 1 to 3 mm wide, opposite, and crowded toward the ends of branchlets. Flowers which are pinkish red or rarely white, are clustered in groups of 5 to 18, the heads surrounded by 4 bracts. These are followed by 3 – 4 mm long green fruit. It occurs in alpine and sub-alpine heath, tussock grassland and woodland in New South Wales and Victoria.