''Pimelea ammocharis'' is a species of small shrub in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is a small shrub with white-yellow to orange flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.

Description

''Pimelea ammocharis'' is a small, upright shrub high with new growth stems densely hairy. The leaves are arranged alternately, with a short leaf stalk, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped or linear, long, wide and light silvery green throughout. The inflorescence may be either pendulous or upright, usually in a tight head of numerous tubular white to deep yellow to orange flowers long. The flowers are smooth on the inside and thickly hairy on the outside and the

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long. The male flowers are mostly evenly hairy or hairs slightly longer near the base. The female or bisexual flowers remain or sporadically tear above the fruit, they are covered with hairs long near the base, considerably shorter at the apex. Flowering occurs from March to October.

Taxonomy and naming

''Pimelea ammocharis'' was first formally described in 1857 by

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

and the description was published in ''

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''. The

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(''ammocharis'') is derived from ''ammos'' meaning "sand" and ''charis'' meaning "grace".

Distribution and habitat

This species occurs from the southern part of the

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to the Kennedy-Blackstone Range and east to central Northern Territory usually along watercourses or red sandy soil and rocky outcrops in dryer regions.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17581886 ammocharis Malvales of Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Plants described in 1857