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Pimelea brevistyla

Pimelea brevistyla
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Pimelea brevistyla is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and head-like racemes of white, tube-shaped flowers surrounded by yellowish involucral bracts.

Where it grows

Subspecies brevistyla mainly grows in lateritic or granitic soil and is found on the Darling Range between Glen Forrest and Serpentine Falls in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain, and subspecies minor in sandy soil from Wubin to Hyden in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Pimelea plants

Dune swale daphne · Pimelea aeruginosa · Alpine Rice Flower · Short Leaved Riceflower · Pimelea amabilis · Pimelea ammocharis · Pimelea angustifolia · Pimelea approximans · Pimelea aquilonia · Pimelea argentea · Pimelea avonensis · Bootlace Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea brevistyla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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