Pimelea filifolia
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Pimelea filifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is an erect herb with thread-like leaves and clusters of pale pink flowers.
Description
Pimelea filifolia is an erect herb that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|20–45|cm}}. The leaves are thread-like, {{cvt|5–34|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.2–1|mm}} wide. The flowers are arranged in clusters on a peduncle {{cvt|40–100|mm}} long surrounded by green and purplish, egg-shaped involucral bracts {{cvt|3.5–7|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–5|mm}} wide. The flowers are pale pink or purplish white, each on a pedicel up to {{cvt|2.2|mm}} long, the floral tube {{cvt|4–10.5|mm}} long and the sepals {{cvt|1.1–1.6|mm}} long. Flowering occurs between February and July.{{cite web |title=Thecanthes filifolia |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Thecanthes%20filifolia |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=15 November 2022}}
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1990 by Barbara Lynette Rye who gave it the name Thecanthes filifolia in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected by Clyde Dunlop.https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/dunlop-clyde-robert.html{{cite web |title=Thecanthes filifolia |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/520965/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=15 November 2022}} In 2016, Charles S.P. Foster and Murray J. Henwood changed the name to Pimelea filifolia in Australian Systematic Botany.{{cite web |title=Pimelea filifolia |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/8166558/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=15 November 2022}} The specific epithet (filifolia) means "thread-leaved".{{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
Pimelea filifolia grows in sandy soil on sandstone pavement, usually near watercourses, from the far north to near Katherine, in Arnhem Land.{{cite web |title=Pimelea filifolia |url=http://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?id=5767 |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=15 November 2022}}
Conservation status
Pimelea filifolia is listed as "least" under the Northern Territory Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.
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Category:Malvales of Australia
Category:Flora of the Northern Territory