''Pimelea strigosa'', is a flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with hairy young stems, elliptic leaves and heads of 7 to 23 yellow flowers, sometimes with a red tinge.

Description

''Pimelea strigosa'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy young stems and leaves. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, long and wide on a short petiole. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in compact groups of 7 to 23,

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or female, yellow, sometimes with a red tinge. The floral tube is long, the sepals long. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak from September to May and the fruit is about long.

Taxonomy and naming

''Pimelea strigosa'' was first formally described in 1913 by Michel Gandoger in the journal ''

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'', from specimens collected near the

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Distribution and habitat

This pimelea grows in woodland and in pastures, often near watercourses and sometimes in rocky places, between Warwick in Queensland and the Warrumbungles and Murrurundi in New South Wales.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q17582276 strigosa Malvales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1913 Taxa named by Michel Gandoger