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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Thymelaeaceae
Pimelea curviflora ssp. sericea

Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 6:31 (1873).

Synonymy: P. muelleri Meissner, Linnaea 26:351 (1854). , Pimelea curviflora

Common name: None

Description:
Erect shrub to 0.3 m; peduncles to 6 mm long; pedicels covered with short appressed hairs; perianth covered outside with short coarse appressed hairs; seed not curved, minutely foveolate with the pits in rows.

image of FSA2_Pimelea_cur_ser.jpg Pimelea curviflora var. sericea twig and flower.
Image source: fig 448b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 505.

Distribution:  Forests and open forests, usually on sandy soils.

S.Aust.: NL, YP, SL.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.

Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

Biology: Poisonous.

Author: Not yet available


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