Pimelea subvillifera
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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|genus = Pimelea
|species = subvillifera
|authority = (Threlfall) Rye{{cite web |title=Pimelea subvillifera |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/70742 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=12 April 2023}}
|synonyms =
- Pimelea octophylla subsp. subvillifera Threlfall
- Pimelea villifera auct. non Meisn.: Black, J.M. (December 1926)
- Pimelea villifera auct. non Meisn.: Black, J.M. (1952)
}}
Pimelea subvillifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is native to the south-west of Western Australia and to South Australia. It is usually an erect shrub and has elliptic leaves and heads of white flowers surrounded by 8 to 18 narrowly egg-shaped involucral bracts.
Description
Pimelea subvillifera is usually an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|15–60|cm}} and has hairy young stems. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, {{cvt|2–8|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.8–3|mm}} wide on a short petiole. Both surfaces of the leaves are densely hairy, the hairs on the upper surface longer than those on the lower surface. The flowers are densely hairy on the outside, bisexual or female, and white, surrounded by 8 to 18 narrowly egg-shaped to almost linear, involucral bracts {{cvt|4–10|mm}} long and {{cvt|1–2|mm}} wide. The flower tube is {{cvt|5–9.5|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|1.5–3.0|mm}} long, and the stamens are usually shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from September to November.{{FloraBase|name=Pimelea subvillifera |id=5267 }}{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=Pimelea subvillifera |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20subvillifera |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=12 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=185–186|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/61/mode/1up |access-date=12 April 2023}}
Taxonomy
Pimelea subvillifera was first formally described in 1983 by S. Threlfall, who gave it the name Pimelea octophylla subsp. subvillifera in the journal Brunonia.{{cite web |title=Pimelea octophylla subsp. subvillifera |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/480040/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=12 April 2023}} In 1988, Barbara Lynette Rye raised the subspecies to species status as Pimelea subvillifera in the journal Nuytsia.{{cite web |title=Pimelea subvillifera |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/481473/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=12 April 2023}} The specific epithet (subvillifera) means "bearing somewhat shaggy hairs".{{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=317 |edition=3rd}}
Distribution and habitat
This pimelea grows on sandplains and rocky hillside from near Sandstone to near Norseman in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia, and on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia.
Conservation status
Pimelea subvillifera is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
References
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Category:Rosids of Western Australia