''Pimelea ciliolaris'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a stunted shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of densely hairy, cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers.

Description

''Pimelea ciliolaris'' is a stunted shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has hairy stems. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic or linear, long and wide with a few hairs on the edge when young. The flowers are borne in compact heads on a

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long, surrounded by 9 to 15 involucral bracts long and wide tinged with purple. The

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s are about long, the floral tube about long and the

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s usually shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from October to December.

Taxonomy

This pimelea was first formally described in 1983 by

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who gave it the name ''Pimelea octophylla'' subsp. ''ciliolaris'' in the journal ''

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'' from specimens collected in the Warrumbungle Ranges in 1899. In 1990,

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raised the subspecies to species status as ''Pimelea ciliolaris'' in the '' Flora of Australia''.

Distribution and habitat

''Pimelea ciliolaris'' grows in exposed, rocky places in the Warrumbungles in northern New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q24189878 ciliolaris Malvales of Australia Plants described in 1983 Flora of New South Wales