Pimelea strigosa
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Pimelea strigosa, is a flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with hairy young stems, elliptic leaves and heads of 7 to 23 yellow flowers, sometimes with a red tinge.
Description
Pimelea strigosa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.3–2|m}} and has hairy young stems and leaves. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, {{cvt|8–35|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–10|mm}} wide on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in compact groups of 7 to 23, bisexual or female, yellow, sometimes with a red tinge. The floral tube is {{cvt|3.0–5.5|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|1–2|mm}} long. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from September to May and the fruit is about {{cvt|4|mm}} long.{{cite web |last1=Harden |first1=Gwen J. |title=Pimelea strigosa|url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pimelea~strigosa |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=11 April 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea strigosa |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20strigosa |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=11 April 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Bean |first1=Anthony R. |title=A taxonomic revision of Pimelea section Epallage (Endl.) Benth. (Thymelaeaceae) in Queensland. |journal=Austrobaileya |date=2017 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=35–36 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59894783#page/40/mode/1up |access-date=11 April 2023}}
Taxonomy and naming
Pimelea strigosa was first formally described in 1913 by Michel Gandoger in the journal Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, from specimens collected near the Warrumbungles.{{cite web|title=Pimelea strigosa|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/481347 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=11 April 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Gandoger |first1=Michel |title=L'Herbier Africain de Sonder. |journal=Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France |date=1913 |volume=60 |page=419 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/8682#page/475/mode/1up |access-date=11 April 2023}} The specific epithet (strigosa) means "strigose".{{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=315 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This pimelea grows in woodland and in pastures, often near watercourses and sometimes in rocky places, between Warwick in Queensland and the Warrumbungles and Murrurundi in New South Wales.
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Category:Malvales of Australia
Category:Flora of New South Wales