Pimelea biflora

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Matted rice-flower
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Thymelaeaceae
Genus: Pimelea
Species:
P. biflora
Binomial name
Pimelea biflora

Pimelea biflora, commonly known as matted rice-flower, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a prostrate, mat-forming shrub with elliptic leaves and dark red flowers always arranged in pairs on the ends of branches.

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Description

Pimelea biflora is a prostrate, mat-forming shrub and has hairy young stems. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and are narrowly elliptic or elliptic, 2–10 mm (0.079–0.394 in) long, 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide on a short petiole. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous, the lower surface with short hairs pressed against the surface. The flowers are arranged in pairs on peduncles about 1 mm (0.039 in) long on the ends of branches, with two elliptic bracts 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) long at the base. The flowers are dark red, but paler near the base. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is green and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Pimelea biflora was first formally described in 1957 by Norman Arthur Wakefield and the description was published in The Victorian Naturalist . [5] [6] The specific epithet (biflora) means "two-flowered". [7]

Distribution

Matted rice-flower grows in alpine and subalpine forest, heath, woodland and grassland south from Mount Gingera in the Australian Capital Territory, through southern New South Wales, to north-eastern Victoria. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Pimelea biflora". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Harden, G.T. "Pimelea biflora". Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Pimelea biflora". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  4. "Pimelea biflora". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  5. "Pimelea biflora". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  6. Wakefield, Norman A. (1957). "Flora of Victoria: new species and other additions - 13". The Victorian Naturalist. 73 (12): 212–213. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  7. Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 146. ISBN   9780958034180.