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Pimelea
''Pimelea'', commonly known as rice flowers, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae. There are about 150 species, including 110 in Australia and 36 in New Zealand. Description Plants in the genus ''Pimelea'' are herbs or small shrubs, usually with leaves arranged in opposite pairs. The leaves are usually paler on the lower surface and the petiole is usually very short. The flowers are usually arranged in groups on the ends of the branches and have no petals, but four petal-like sepals and two stamen The stamen (: stamina or stamens) is a part consisting of the male reproductive organs of a flower. Collectively, the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament ...s. The Ovary (botany), ovary has a single ovule and the fruit is usually a Nut (fruit), nut containing a single seed. Taxonomy and naming The genus ''Pimelea'' was first formally described in 1788 by Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimelea Ferruginea Yallingup 2
''Pimelea'', commonly known as rice flowers, is a genus of plants belonging to the Family (biology), family Thymelaeaceae. There are about 150 species, including 110 in Australia and 36 in New Zealand. Description Plants in the genus ''Pimelea'' are Herbaceous plant, herbs or small shrubs, usually with leaves arranged in opposite pairs. The leaves are usually paler on the lower surface and the Petiole (botany), petiole is usually very short. The flowers are usually arranged in groups on the ends of the branches and have no petals, but four petal-like sepals and two stamens. The Ovary (botany), ovary has a single ovule and the fruit is usually a Nut (fruit), nut containing a single seed. Taxonomy and naming The genus ''Pimelea'' was first formally described in 1788 by Joseph Gaertner from unpublished descriptions by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. The first species Gaertner described was ''Pimelea laevigata'', now known as ''Pimelea prostrata''. The name ''Pimelea'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimelea Flava Subsp
''Pimelea'', commonly known as rice flowers, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae. There are about 150 species, including 110 in Australia and 36 in New Zealand. Description Plants in the genus ''Pimelea'' are herbs or small shrubs, usually with leaves arranged in opposite pairs. The leaves are usually paler on the lower surface and the petiole is usually very short. The flowers are usually arranged in groups on the ends of the branches and have no petals, but four petal-like sepals and two stamens. The ovary has a single ovule and the fruit is usually a nut containing a single seed. Taxonomy and naming The genus ''Pimelea'' was first formally described in 1788 by Joseph Gaertner from unpublished descriptions by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. The first species Gaertner described was ''Pimelea laevigata'', now known as '' Pimelea prostrata''. The name ''Pimelea'' is from the Ancient Greek word ''πιμελή'' (''pīmelḗ)'', meaning "soft fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimelea Brevistyla
''Pimelea brevistyla'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and head-like racemes of white, tube-shaped flowers surrounded by yellowish involucral bracts. Description ''Pimelea brevistyla'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, long, wide and more or less sessile with the edges curved downwards. The flowers are white, and borne in head-like racemes surrounded by 2, 4 or 6 involucral bracts long, each flower on a hairy pedicel about long. The floral tube is long, the sepals white and spreading, long and hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from August to October. Taxonomy ''Pimelea brevistyla '' was first formally described in 1984 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal ''Nuytsia'' from specimens collected in Glen Forrest in 1983. The specific epithet (''brevistyla'') means " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimelea Punicea
''Pimelea punicea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an Annual plant, annual Herbaceous plant, herb with narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and clusters of red or orange-red flowers with 4 green, egg-shaped Bract#Involucral bracts, involucral bracts. Description ''Pimelea punicea'' is a wikt:glabrous, glabrous, somewhat glaucous annual herb that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, lance-shaped, narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a short Petiole (botany), petiole. The flowers are red to orange-red and arranged in heads on the ends of branches on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle expanded at its top into a funnel-shaped Receptacle (botany), receptacle. Each flower is on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel up to long and there are 4 green, egg-shaped involucral bracts long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
