''Pimelea lanata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and erect clusters of white to deep pink flowers surrounded by 4, mostly green, involucral bracts.

Description

''Pimelea lanata'' is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, usually long and wide and sessile, or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in erect clusters, surrounded by 4 mostly green involucral bracts that are long, wide, each flower on a

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long. The floral tube is long, the sepals long, and the

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s are longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs mainly from December to February.

Taxonomy

''Pimelea lanata'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his book '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. The

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(''lanata'') means "woolly".

Distribution and habitat

This pimelea grows in winter-wet places on near-coastal plains between Perth and Albany in the Jarrah Forest,

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and

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bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

''Pimelea lanata'' is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17582318 lanata Malvales of Australia Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) Plants described in 1810 Flora of Western Australia