Pimelea ferruginea
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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|image = Pimelea ferruginea Cape Naturaliste.jpg
|image_caption = At Cape Naturaliste
|genus = Pimelea
|species = ferruginea
|authority = Labill.{{cite web|title=Pimelea ferruginea|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/67845|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=14 November 2022}}
|synonyms =
- Banksia ferruginea (Labill.) Kuntze
- Heterolaena decussata C.A.Mey. nom. illeg.
- Heterolaena decussata C.A.Mey. var. decussata nom. illeg.
- Pimelea decussata R.Br. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
}}
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Pimelea ferruginea, commonly known as pink rice flower{{cite web |title=Pimelea ferruginea |url=https://anpsa.org.au/plant_profiles/pimelea-ferruginea/ |publisher=Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) |access-date=14 November 2022}} or coastal banjine,{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=An updated revision of Pimelea sect. Heterolaena (Thymelaeaceae), including two new taxa. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1999 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=174–177 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225337#page/180/mode/1up |access-date=14 November 2022}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a dense, erect shrub with elliptic to narrowly elliptic leaves and head-like clusters of pale to deep pink, tube-shaped flowers.
Description
Pimelea ferruginea is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.3–1.5|m}} and usually has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are elliptic to narrowly elliptic with the edges curved down, {{cvt|5–16|mm}} long and {{cvt|1.5–6.5|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.1–1|mm}} long. The flowers are pale to deep pink and borne in erect, head-like clusters on a hairy peduncle {{cvt|0.5–1.2|mm}} long, surrounded by 4 broadly egg-shaped bracts {{cvt|5–14|mm}} long, each flower on a hairy pedicel {{cvt|0.5–1.2|mm}} long. The floral tube is {{cvt|7–13|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|2.5–4|mm}} long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to February.{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea ferruginea |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20ferruginea |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=14 November 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1988 |volume=6 |issue=2 |page=251 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/127/mode/1up |access-date=14 November 2022}}
Taxonomy
Pimelea ferruginea was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.{{cite web|title=Pimelea ferruginea|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/476481 |publisher=APNI|access-date=14 November 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Labillardière |first1=Jacques |title=Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen |date=1805 |location=Paris |pages=10–11 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126969#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=14 November 2022}} The specific epithet (ferruginea) means "rust-coloured".{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=198 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
Pink rice flower grows on coastal sand dunes and rocky headlands in near-coastal areas between Cliff Head near Arrowsmith, and Point Culver, in the Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.{{FloraBase|name=Pimelea ferruginea|id=5243}}
Conservation status
Pimelea ferruginea is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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Category:Malvales of Australia
Category:Flora of Western Australia