Pimelea forrestiana
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
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|genus = Pimelea
|species = forrestiana
|authority = F.Muell.{{cite web|title=Pimelea forrestiana|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/67993|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=1 December 2022}}
|synonyms = Banksia forrestiana (F.Muell.) Kuntze
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Pimelea forrestiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and head-like clusters of yellow, tube-shaped flowers.
Description
Pimelea forrestiana is a shrub that usually grows to a height of {{cvt|0.5–1.5|m}} and has glabrous stems. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, {{cvt|6–40|mm}} long, {{cvt|1.5–6.6|mm}} wide and glabrous. The flowers are arranged in heads of many flowers on the ends of stems, the heads sometimes with a sessile involucral bract {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.5–1|mm}} wide, but that falls off as the flowers open. The male flowers are yellow, the floral tube {{cvt|3–6.5|mm}} long and the sepals {{cvt|1.2–1.5|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from June to September.{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea forrestiana |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20forrestiana |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=1 December 2022}}{{FloraBase|name=Pimelea forrestiana|id=5245}}{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1988 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=165–167 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/41/mode/1up |access-date=3 January 2023}}
Taxonomy
Pimelea forrestiana was first formally described in 1878 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected by John Forrest at an altitude of {{cvt|2500|ft|}} in the Hamersley Range.{{cite web|title=Pimelea forrestiana|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/476723|publisher=APNI|access-date=1 December 2022}} The specific epithet (forrestiana) honours the collector of the type specimens.{{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=201 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This pimelea grows on granite outcrops and rocky hillsides from the Hamersley Range to Lake Moore (south of Paynes Find) in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgo bioregions of Western Australia.
Conservation status
Pimelea forrestiana 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