Pimelea preissii
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Pimelea preissii is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and compact clusters of many white or pink flowers surrounded by 4 green, egg-shaped involucral bracts.
Description
Pimelea preissii is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|8–70|cm}} and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, glabrous and narrowly elliptic, {{cvt|5–20|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–7|mm}} wide on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged in compact clusters of many white or pink flowers, surrounded by 4 green involucral bracts {{cvt|6–14|mm}} long and {{cvt|4–10|mm}} wide. The flower tube is {{cvt|10–16|mm}} long and the sepals {{cvt|3–5|mm}} long, the stamens shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from September to December.{{FloraBase|name=Pimelea preissii|id=5259}}{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea preissii |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20preissii |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=18 March 2023}}
Taxonomy
Pimelea preissii was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae.{{cite web |title=Pimelea preissii |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/480507/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=18 March 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Meissner |first1=Carl |editor-last1=Lehmann |editor-first1=Johann G.C. |title=Plantae Preissianae |date=1845 |publisher=Sumptibus Meissneri |location=Hamburg |pages=601–602 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9227#page/606/mode/1up |access-date=18 March 2023}} The specific epithet (preissii) honours Ludwig Preiss.{{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=383 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This pimelea mainly grows in woodland and forest between Wooroloo, Cape Leeuwin and the Bow River in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Conservation status
Pimelea preissii is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
References
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Category:Malvales of Australia
Category:Flora of Western Australia