Pimelea venosa
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| Bolivia Hill rice-flower | |
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| Cultivated specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. venosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea venosa | |
Pimelea venosa, commonly known as Bolivia Hill rice-flower,[2] is a flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with densely long-hairy stems and leaves, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and small groups of white flowers.
Pimelea venosa is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) with its stems and leaves densely covered with long, soft, whitish hairs. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) wide. The flowers are bisexual, white, arranged in groups of three to six with between two and six small, leaf-like bracts at the base. The fruit is oval, green and about 4 mm (0.16 in) long.[2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
Pimelea venosa was first formally described in 1983 by S. Threlfall in the journal Brunonia, from a specimen collected by Ernst Betche near Bolivia in 1886.[5]