Pimelea lanata

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Pimelea lanata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Thymelaeaceae
Genus: Pimelea
Species:
P. lanata
Binomial name
Pimelea lanata
Synonyms [1]

Pimelea lanata is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and erect clusters of white to deep pink flowers surrounded by 4, mostly green, involucral bracts.

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Description

Pimelea lanata is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–4 m (2 ft 4 in – 13 ft 1 in) and has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, usually 9–25 mm (0.35–0.98 in) long and 2–10 mm (0.079–0.394 in) wide and sessile, or on a petiole up to 1.3 mm (0.051 in) long. The flowers are arranged in erect clusters, surrounded by 4 mostly green involucral bracts that are 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) long, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) wide, each flower on a pedicel 0.3–1 mm (0.012–0.039 in) long. The floral tube is 7.0–10.5 mm (0.28–0.41 in) long, the sepals 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long, and the stamens are longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs mainly from December to February. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Taxonomy

Pimelea lanata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his book Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen . [6] [7] The specific epithet (lanata) means "woolly". [8]

Distribution and habitat

This pimelea grows in winter-wet places on near-coastal plains between Perth and Albany in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia. [2] [3]

Conservation status

Pimelea lanata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pimelea lanata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 Rye, Barbara L. "Pimelea lanata". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Pimelea lanata". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. ↑ Rye, Barbara L. (1988). "A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae". Nuytsia. 6 (2): 253–255. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  5. ↑ Rye, Barbara L. (1999). "An updated revision of Pimelea sect. Heterolaena (Thymelaeaceae), including two new taxa". Nuytsia. 13 (1): 178–179. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Pimelea lanata". APNI. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  7. ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805. London: Typis R. Taylor et socii. p. 360. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 234. ISBN   9780958034180.
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