Pimelea leucantha
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| Pimelea leucantha | |
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| Near Cataby | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. leucantha |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea leucantha | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pimelea rosea var. calocephala Meisn. | |
Pimelea leucantha is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas in the west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of white to pale yellow flowers surrounded by 4 or 6 egg-shaped involucral bracts.
Pimelea leucantha is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.4–2 m (1 ft 4 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are mostly linear to narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic, 12–28 mm (0.47–1.10 in) long and 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide on a petiole 0.5–1.2 mm (0.020–0.047 in) long. The flowers are white to pale yellow and arranged in clusters on a peduncle 1–6 mm (0.039–0.236 in) long. There are 4 or 6 pale yellowish green, often pink-tinged, egg-shaped involucral bracts 14–24 mm (0.55–0.94 in) long and 6–14 mm (0.24–0.55 in) wide around the flower clusters, each flower on a hairy pedicel 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) long. The sepals are 3.0–5.5 mm (0.12–0.22 in) long, the narrow section of the floral tube 9–14 mm (0.35–0.55 in) long, and the stamens usually shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from August to early November.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
Pimelea leucantha was first formally described in 1904 by Ludwig Diels in Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.[6][7] The specific epithet (leucantha) means "white-flowered".[8]