Pimelea strigosa
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| Pimelea strigosa | |
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| In Carnarvon Station Reserve | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. strigosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea strigosa | |
Pimelea strigosa, is a flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with hairy young stems, elliptic leaves and heads of 7 to 23 yellow flowers, sometimes with a red tinge.
Pimelea strigosa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–2 m (1 ft 0 in – 6 ft 7 in) and has hairy young stems and leaves. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 8–35 mm (0.31–1.38 in) long and 2–10 mm (0.079–0.394 in) wide on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in compact groups of 7 to 23, bisexual or female, yellow, sometimes with a red tinge. The floral tube is 3.0–5.5 mm (0.12–0.22 in) long, the sepals 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from September to May and the fruit is about 4 mm (0.16 in) long.[2][3][4]