Kingdom Plantae Family Thymelaeaceae Scientific name Pimelea octophylla | Order Malvales Genus Pimelea Rank Species | |
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Similar Pimelea alpina, Pimelea hewardiana, Pimelea flava, Pimelea humilis, Pimelea ligustrina | ||
Pimelea octophylla, commonly known as woolly riceflower or downy riceflower, is a shrub in the family Thymelaeaceae. The speciesis native to south-eastern Australia. It grows up to 1 metre high and produces cream to pale yellow terminal flowerheads with long white hairs. The flowerheads have 25 to 150 flowers . The leaves are 2 to 15 mm long and 0.5 to 5 mm wide.
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Taxonomy
The species was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae in 1810, from plant material that he collected from Arthurs Seat, Victoria in January 1804.
A number of former subspecies have been reclassified as follows:
Distribution
The species occurs in Victoria and South Australia.
References
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