Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pimelea buxifolia Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 243 (1864)
Synonymy:
  • = Pimelea stylosa Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 20: 205 (1887 [1888])
  • = Pimelea subsimilis Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 609 (1895 [1896])
  • = Pimelea montana Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31: 279 (1899)
 Description

Stout rigid, much-branched, up to 1 m. or more tall, us. less; branchlets clad in short grey to fulvous hairs, lf-scars prominent, bark almost black. Lvs quadrifariously imbricate, on very short petioles. Lamina at first ascending, becoming subpatent, 5–10 × 3–5 mm., oblong-ovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, keeled, very coriac., glab., lateral veins evident to obscure. Subfloral lvs broad-ovate, ± 10 × 7 mm. Infl. of 9–12-fld heads. Per. (6)–9–10–(15) mm. long, white to pink, silky-hairy within and without. Fr. dry, ± 4 mm. long.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Apr.; Fruiting: Nov.–Apr.

 Bibliography
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