Pimelea spectabilis

Pimelea spectabilis is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.5–2|m}} and usually has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are narrowly or very narrowly elliptic, {{cvt|11–55|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–7|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.5–1.5|mm}} long. The upper surface is often bluish and the lower surface is a paler shade of green. The flowers are white, pale pink or pale yellow and arranged in heads on a peduncle {{cvt|2–15|mm}} long, each flower on a hairy pedicel {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} long. The heads are surrounded by 4 or 6 egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped, green to reddish involucral bracts {{cvt|16–30|mm}} long and {{cvt|9–20|mm}} wide. The flower tube is {{cvt|13–19|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|4–6|mm}} long, and the stamens are longer than the sepals. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November.{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea spectabilis |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20spectabilis |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=6 April 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1988 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=236–238|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/112/mode/1up |access-date=6 April 2023}}{{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=189–190 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225337#page/195/mode/1up |access-date=6 April 2023}}

Pimelea spectabilis was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony.{{cite web |title=Pimelea spectabilis |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/481218/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=2 April 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Lindley |first1=John |title=A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony |date=1839 |publisher=James Ridgway |location=London |page=xli |url=https://archive.org/details/sketchvegetatio00goog/page/n48/mode/2up |access-date=6 April 2023}} The specific epithet (spectabilis) means "remarkable" or "spectacular".{{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=310 |edition=3rd}}

This pimelea usually grows on hills, often in jarrah forest, and occurs between Cape Naturaliste and the Fitzgerald River National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Pimelea sessilis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

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spectabilis

Category:Rosids of Western Australia

Category:Malvales of Australia

Category:Taxa named by John Lindley

Category:Plants described in 1839