Pimelea alpina
| Pimelea alpina | |
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| Pimelea alpina, showing flower colour variation at Baw Baw National Park, Victoria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus: | Pimelea |
| Species: | P. alpina |
| Binomial name | |
| Pimelea alpina Meisn.[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Banksia alpina (Meisn.) Kuntze | |
Pimelea alpina, the alpine rice-flower, is a small shrub species in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is endemic to Southern Australia.
It has a prostrate or erect habit, growing up to 30 cm in height. Leaves are 3 to 13 mm long and 1 to 3 mm wide, opposite, and crowded toward the ends of branchlets.[2][3] Flowers which are pinkish red or rarely white, are clustered in groups of 5 to 18, the heads surrounded by 4 bracts.[2] These are followed by 3 – 4 mm long green fruit.[2]
The species was first formally described in Prodromus in 1810, based on plant material collected in the Cobberas Range by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.[1]
It occurs in alpine and sub-alpine heath, tussock grassland and woodland in New South Wales and Victoria.[2]
References
- 1 2 "Pimelea alpina". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 "New South Wales Flora Online: Pimelea alpina". Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia.
- ↑ Corrick, M.G. & Fuhrer, B.A. (2001). Wildflowers of Victoria and adjoining areas. Australia: Bloomings Books. ISBN 1876473142.