''Pimelea confertiflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to north Queensland. It is a shrub with densely hairy young stems, elliptic or narrowly elliptic leaves and spikes of yellowish-green or yellow, tube-shaped flowers.

Description

''Pimelea confertiflora'' is a perennial shrub that typically grows to a height of and has young stems densely covered with transparent hairs pressed against the surface. The leaves are arranged more or less in opposite pairs, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, long and wide, on a petiole long. The leaves are hairy, the hairs on the lower surface longer than those on the upper surface. The flowers are borne in spikes on the ends of branches in clusters of 52 to 130 on a densely hairy rachis long, the

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long, each flower on a

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long. The floral tube is long and yellowish-green or yellow, the sepals long and densely hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs in most months.

Taxonomy

''Pimelea confertiflora '' 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 by Paul Irwin Forster near Mount Misery in 1990. The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

(''confertiflora'') means "crowded flowers".

Distribution and habitat

This pimelea grows on hillsides with rocky outcrops between the

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, Undara Volcanic National Park and

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in north Queensland.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q65945517 confertiflora Flora of Queensland Malvales of Australia Plants described in 2017 Taxa named by Anthony Bean