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Pimelea aquilonia

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Botanical Name

Pimelea aquilonia Rye

Rye, B.L. () Flora of Australia 18: 323. Type: Queensland, Newcastle Bay, 2.5 miles [4 km] S of Somerset homestead, 11 May 1948, L.J.Brass 18769; holo: BRI.

Common name

Riceflower

Stem

Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 1-3 m tall.

Leaves

Twigs clothed in short, pale prostrate hairs. Leaves produced in four ranks on the twigs. Leaf blades about 8-35 x 2-7 mm, petiole very short. Upper leaf blade surface +/- glabrous, underside clothed in pale prostrate hairs, venation obscure, very difficult to discern. Twig bark strong and fibrous when stripped.

Flowers

Inflorescence with four or five flowers, subtended by leaf-like bracts. Perianth tube (hypanthium) about 9-11.5 mm long, hairy on both the outer and inner surfaces, perianth lobes about 2.5-5 mm long. Stamens subsessile in the throat of the perianth tube (hypanthium). Anthers about 2 mm long. Pollen orange. Style about 3 mm long, stigma papillose.

Fruit

Features not available.

Seedlings

Features not available.

Distribution and Ecology

Endemic to Queensland, occurs in CYP and NEQ. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 300 m (?) Grows as an understory plant in beach forest and vine thickets. Also apparently found on granite slabs in exposed situations.