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Pimelea pygmaea

Pimelea pygmaea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Pimelea pygmaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a prostrate, cushion-like undershrub with narrowly oblong to elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and white flowers arranged singly on the ends of the many branches.

Where it grows

This pimelea grows in alpine and subalpine moorland at altitudes above 1,000 m (3,300 ft) on the Central Plateau Conservation Area in Tasmania.

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 pygmaea 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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