Pimelea spiculigera
Pimelea spiculigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and heads of yellow or greenish-yellow flowers surrounded by 2 or 4 egg-shaped involucral bracts.
Description
Pimelea spiculigera is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glabrous stems. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, linear to narrowly egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. Both surfaces of the leaves are glabrous, and the same shade of medium green. The flowers are glabrous, yellow or greenish-yellow and arranged in one or two heads, surrounded by 2 or 4 egg-shaped, medium green involucral bracts long and wide. Each flower is on a densely hairy pedicel long. The flower tube of male flowers is long, the sepals long, the stamens shorter than the sepals. The flower tube of female flowers is long, the sepals long. Flowering occurs from July to October.Taxonomy
Pimelea spiculigera was first formally described in 1878 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet means "carrying a small flower spike".In 1988, Barbara Lynette Rye described two varieties of P. spiculigera in the journal Nuytsia, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Pimelea spiculigera F.Muell. var. spiculigera has an elongated flower cluster at maturity, the floral rachis up to long.Pimelea spiculigera var. thesioides Rye has a compact flower cluster at maturity, the floral rachis long.