Pimelea macrostegia
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| Pimelea macrostegia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. macrostegia |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea macrostegia | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pimelea ligustrina var. macrostegia Benth. | |
Pimelea macrostegia is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is a shrub with glabrous, narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of pale yellow flowers surrounded by 4 or 6 egg-shaped, pale green involucral bracts.
Pimelea macrostegia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.7–1.5 m (2 ft 4 in – 4 ft 11 in) and has glabrous stems. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic, 12–33 mm (0.47–1.30 in) long and 3–13 mm (0.12–0.51 in) wide on a short petiole. The flowers are pale yellow and arranged in clusters of 50 to 90 on a peduncle 1.5–9 mm (0.059–0.354 in) long. There are 4 or 6 pale green, sometimes also purplish, egg-shaped or broadly egg-shaped involucral bracts, mostly 13–26 mm (0.51–1.02 in) long and 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) wide around the flower clusters, each flower on a hairy pedicel. The sepals are 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, the floral tube 10–17 mm (0.39–0.67 in) long, and the stamens longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs from November to February.[2][3]