Pimelea suaveolens

Pimelea suaveolens is an erect, spindly, often multi-stemmed shrub which grows to a height of {{convert|0.25-1.2|m|ft|sigfig=1|abbr=on}}. The stems and leaves are glabrous and the leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, sword-shaped and {{convert|10-30|mm|in|sigfig=1|abbr=on}} long. The inflorescences are {{convert|30-40|mm|in|sigfig=1|abbr=on}} across and consist of many pale to deep yellow flowers surrounded by hairy, petal-like bracts and hang from the branches. Flowering occurs from June to October.{{FloraBase | name = Pimelea suaveolens Rchb.f.|last1=Spooner|first1=Amanda|date=22 September 1999| id = 5266}}{{cite book|last1=Wrigley|first1=John W|last2=Fagg|first2=Murray|title=Australian native plants|page=284|date=2013|publisher=Reed New Holland|location=Chatswood, N.S.W.|isbn=9781921517150|edition=6th}}{{cite book|last1=Erickson|first1=Rica|title=Flowers and plants of Western Australia|date=1982|publisher=Reed|location=Sydney|isbn=058950116X|page=39|edition=Reprinted 1983}}

Pimelea suaveolens was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner and the description was published in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from a specimen collected by James Drummond at Greenmount in 1839.{{cite web|title=Pimelea suaveolens|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/481364|publisher=APNI|accessdate=12 February 2019}}{{cite book|last1=Meissner|first1=Carl D.F.|last2=Lehmann|first2=Johann G.C.|title=Plantae Preissianae Vol.1, No.4|date=1845|location=Hamburg|pages=603–604|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/498179#page/608/mode/1up|accessdate=26 November 2017}} The Latin specific epithet suaveolens means "sweet-smelling".{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Roland Wilbur|title=The Composition of Scientific Words|date=1956|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|page =773}}

In 1988, Barbara Rye named two subspecies of P. suaveolens in the journal Nuytsia and the names are accepted at the Australian Plant Census:{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1988 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=214–219 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/90/mode/1up |access-date=28 November 2020}}

• Pimelea suaveolens subsp. flava Rye{{cite web|title=Pimelea suaveolens subsp. flava|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/70670|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=28 November 2020}} that has green leaves;{{cite book|last1=Corrick|first1=Margaret G.|last2=Fuhrer|first2=Bruce A.|title=Wildflowers of southern Western Australia|date=2009|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing|location=Kenthurst, N.S.W.|isbn=9781877058844|page=211|edition=3rd}}
• Pimelea suaveolens Meisn. subsp. suaveolens{{cite web|title=Pimelea suaveolens subsp. suaveolens|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/70687|publisher=Australian Plant Census|accessdate=28 November 2020}} that has glaucous leaves.

Scented banjine grows on sand, sandy clay, gravel and laterite on undulating plains, flats, ridges and roadsides. It grows between New Norcia and Albany in the Coolgardie, Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions.{{cite book|last1=Paczkowska|first1=Grazyna|last2=Chapman|first2=Alex R.|title=The Western Australian flora : a descriptive catalogue|date=2000|publisher=Wildflower Society of Western Australia|location=Perth|isbn=0646402439|page=560}}

Pimelea suaveolens is classified by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions as "not threatened".

This species is not difficult to propagate from cuttings but is difficult to maintain in cultivation. "Good drainage and partial shade are important."

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suaveolens

Category:Endemic flora of Western Australia

Category:Rosids of Western Australia

Category:Malvales of Australia

Category:Plants described in 1845