Pimelea hispida
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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|genus = Pimelea
|species = hispida
|authority = R.Br.{{cite web |title=Pimelea hispida |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/68391 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=31 December 2022}}
|synonyms =
- Banksia hispida (R.Br.) Kuntze
- Heterolaena hispida (R.Br.) C.A.Mey.
- Pimelea hispida R.Br. var. hispida
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Pimelea hispida, commonly known as bristly pimelea,{{FloraBase|name=Pimelea hispida |id=5249 }} is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with elliptic leaves and erect clusters of pink flowers surrounded by 4 green involucral bracts.
Description
Pimelea hispida is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.2–1.5|m}} with a single stem at ground level. The leaves are elliptic, {{cvt|9–29|mm}} long, {{cvt|2–9|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|1–2|mm}} long. The flowers are pink, arranged in clusters on an erect peduncle {{cvt|5–40|mm}} long, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|0.4–1|mm}} long. The clusters are surrounded by 4 involucral bracts that are {{cvt|9–20|mm}} long and {{cvt|7–20|mm}} wide and green with pink or yellow parts. The flower tube is {{cvt|11–16|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|2.5–5|mm}} long, and the stamens are usually longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs from September to December.{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1988 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=252–253 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/30/mode/1up |access-date=27 December 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea hispida |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20hispida |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=31 December 2022}}
Taxonomy
Pimelea hispida was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his book Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.{{cite web|title=Pimelea hispida|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/477389 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=31 December 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Robert |title=Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 |date=1810 |publisher=Typis R. Taylor et socii |location=London |page=360 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2954516#page/228/mode/1up |accessdate=31 December 2022}} The specific epithet (hispida) means "with bristly hairs", referring to the flowers.{{cite book |author=Francis Aubie Sharr|title=Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, Western Australia |isbn=9780958034180 |page=218}}
Distribution and habitat
Bristly pimelea grows on winter-wet flats and on coastal sand hills and is found from Geographe Bay to Albany and in the Stirling Range, in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
This pimelea is list as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
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Category:Malvales of Australia
Category:Flora of Western Australia