Pimelea congesta
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| Pimelea congesta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. congesta |
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| Pimelea congesta | |
Pimelea congesta is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Lord Howe Island in Australia. It is a shrub with rough bark, decussate, elliptic leaves and heads of white flowers.
Pimelea congesta is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) and has tough, red bark. The leaves are closely overlapping, decussate, elliptic or narrowly lance-shaped, mostly 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) wide on a petiole about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long. The leaves are leathery, dull pale green, and glabrous. The flowers are white and borne in heads of about 9 flowers on the ends of branchlets. The sepals are white, egg-shaped, silky-hairy on the lower part and about 2 mm (0.079 in) long, the floral cup 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long and the stamens protruding from the floral tube. Flowering occurs from mid-July to mid-October and the fruit is a brown, elliptic nut 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) long.[2][3][4]