Pimelea spiculigera

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

Banksia spiculigera(F.Muell.) Kuntze

Pimelea spiculigera var. thesioides in the Australian National Botanic Gardens Pimelea spiculigera.jpg
Pimelea spiculigera var. thesioides in the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Pimelea spiculigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and heads of yellow or greenish-yellow flowers surrounded by 2 or 4 egg-shaped involucral bracts.

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Description

Pimelea spiculigera is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–2 m (7.9 in – 6 ft 6.7 in) and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, linear to narrowly egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, 4–26 mm (0.16–1.02 in) long and 0.7–3.5 mm (0.028–0.138 in) wide on a petiole 0.3–1.3 mm (0.012–0.051 in) long. Both surfaces of the leaves are glabrous, and the same shade of medium green. The flowers are glabrous, yellow or greenish-yellow and arranged in one or two heads, surrounded by 2 or 4 egg-shaped, medium green involucral bracts 2–10 mm (0.079–0.394 in) long and 1.5–3.0 mm (0.059–0.118 in) wide. Each flower is on a densely hairy pedicel 0.3–0.7 mm (0.012–0.028 in) long. The flower tube of male flowers is 3.0–5.5 mm (0.12–0.22 in) long, the sepals 1.3–1.7 mm (0.051–0.067 in) long, the stamens shorter than the sepals. The flower tube of female flowers is 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long, the sepals 0.8–1 mm (0.031–0.039 in) long. Flowering occurs from July to October. [2] [3] [4]

Taxonomy

Pimelea spiculigera was first formally described in 1878 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae . [5] [6] The specific epithet (spiculigera) means "carrying a small flower spike". [7]

In 1988, Barbara Lynette Rye described two varieties of P. spiculigera in the journal Nuytsia , and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census :

Distribution and habitat

This pimelea grows on granite outcrops and laterite from near Mullewa to Cundeelee and Mount Beaumont (north of Cape Arid National Park), in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia. [2] [4] [9] [12] Variety spiculigera has a more limited distribution than var. thesioides, occurring from the Fraser Range (north-east of Dundas) to Mount Beaumont in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions. [2] [4] [11] [13]

Conservation status

Pimelea spiculigera and both of its varieties are listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. [2] [12] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pimelea spiculigera". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Pimelea spiculigera". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ↑ Rye, Barbara L. "Pimelea spiculigera". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Rye, Barbara L. (1988). "A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae". Nuytsia. 6 (2): 160–165. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Pimelea spiculigera". APNI. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  6. ↑ von Mueller, Ferdinand (1878). Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. Melbourne: Victorian Government Printer. pp. 46–47. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  7. ↑ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 311. ISBN   9780958034180.
  8. ↑ "Pimelea spiculigera var. spiculigera". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  9. 1 2 Rye, Barbara L. "Pimelea spiculigera var. spiculigera". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Pimelea spiculigera var. thesioides". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  11. 1 2 Rye, Barbara L. "Pimelea spiculigera var. thesioides". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  12. 1 2 "Pimelea spiculigera var. thesioides". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  13. 1 2 "Pimelea spiculigera var. spiculigera". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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