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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Thymelaeaceae
Pimelea octophylla ssp. octophylla

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Ill. Beek & Foster (1972) Wildflowers of South Australia.

Description:
Shrub to 1 m; leaves and involucral bracts covered with long fine white hairs; involucral bracts 6-12; flowers 25-70 in each head; pedicels 0.5-2 mm long, covered with coarse hairs 2-5 mm long.

Perianth 14.5-18.5 mm long, covered outside with long fine white spreading hairs and additional coarse hairs on the upper tube.

image of FSA2_Pimelea_oct_oct.jpg Pimelea octophylla subsp. octophylla flower, outer and inner surfaces of leaves, outer and inner surfaces of bracts.
Image source: fig 449a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Heath and dry sclerophyll forest usually on sandy soil.

  Vic.

Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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