Pimelea lanata
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| Pimelea lanata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. lanata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea lanata | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Pimelea lanata is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and erect clusters of white to deep pink flowers surrounded by 4, mostly green, involucral bracts.
Pimelea lanata is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–4 m (2 ft 4 in – 13 ft 1 in) and has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, usually 9–25 mm (0.35–0.98 in) long and 2–10 mm (0.079–0.394 in) wide and sessile, or on a petiole up to 1.3 mm (0.051 in) long. The flowers are arranged in erect clusters, surrounded by 4 mostly green involucral bracts that are 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) long, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) wide, each flower on a pedicel 0.3–1 mm (0.012–0.039 in) long. The floral tube is 7.0–10.5 mm (0.28–0.41 in) long, the sepals 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) long, and the stamens are longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs mainly from December to February.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
Pimelea lanata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his book Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[6][7] The specific epithet (lanata) means "woolly".[8]