''Pimelea approximans'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to northern Queensland. It is a perennial shrub with elliptic leaves and spikes of hairy, yellow, tube-shaped flowers.

Description

''Pimelea approximans'' is a perennial shrub that typically grows to a height of and has densely hairy young stems. The leaves are elliptic, mostly long and wide, on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in spikes of 50 to 130 on a densely hairy rachis long. The flowers are yellow, the floral tube long, the sepals long and densely hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs in May and June and the fruit contains a dark brown, oval seed long.

Taxonomy

''Pimelea approximans '' was first formally described in 2017 by

Anthony Bean Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants. Care ...

in the journal '' Austrobaileya'' from specimens collected at

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in 1979. The

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(''approximans'') refers to the similarity of this species to '' P. amabilis''.

Distribution and habitat

This pimelea grows on in woodland or grassland on rocky hillsides, in the

Bathurst Bay Bathurst Bay is a bay in the localities of Lakefield and Starcke in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. In the 19th century it was the base for the pearling fleet. It is now a tourist attraction on Cape York Peninsula in northern Que ...

and Coen areas of north Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q65945511 approximans Flora of Queensland Malvales of Australia Plants described in 2017 Taxa named by Anthony Bean