Pimelea brevistyla
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.
Description
Pimelea brevistyla is a shrub that typically grows to a height of. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide and more or less sessile with the edges curved downwards. The flowers are white, and borne in head-like racemes surrounded by 2, 4 or 6 involucral bracts long, each flower on a hairy pedicel about long. The floral tube is long, the sepals white and spreading, long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from August to October.Taxonomy
Pimelea brevistyla was first formally described in 1984 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected in Glen Forrest in 1983. The specific epithet means "short style".In a later edition of the journal Nuytsia, Rye described two subspecies of P. brevistyla and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Pimelea brevistyla Rye subsp. brevistyla has involucral bracts long, the floral tube long and sepals long.Pimelea brevistyla subsp. minor Rye has involucral bracts long, the floral tube long and sepals long.