Pimelea ciliolaris

Pimelea ciliolaris is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a stunted shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of densely hairy, cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers.

Description

Pimelea ciliolaris is a stunted shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has hairy stems. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic or linear, long and wide with a few hairs on the edge when young. The flowers are borne in compact heads on a peduncle long, surrounded by 9 to 15 involucral bracts long and wide tinged with purple. The sepals are about long, the floral tube about long and the stamens usually shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from October to December.

Taxonomy

This pimelea was first formally described in 1983 by S. Threlfall who gave it the name Pimelea octophylla subsp. ciliolaris in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected in the Warrumbungle Ranges in 1899. In 1990, Barbara Lynette Rye raised the subspecies to species status as Pimelea ciliolaris in the Flora of Australia.

Distribution and habitat

Pimelea ciliolaris grows in exposed, rocky places in the Warrumbungles in northern New South Wales.