Class
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pimelea mesoa subsp. macra C.J.Burrows, New Zealand J. Bot. 49: 67 (2011)
Description
Small shrub, usually procumbent, sometimes climbing in other plants, with few to many trailing, non-radiating stems, to 30 cm long; young stems light brown, moderately hairy; internodes 2–5 mm long. Older stems moderately stout (to 4 mm), dark brown. Node buttresses lunate to elongate, usually not prominent on leafless stems. Leaves ascending, loosely imbricate to distant, becoming patent.
[Reproduced from Burrows (2011, New Zealand J. Bot. 49: 41–106) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Bibliography
Burrows, C.J. 2011: Genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in New Zealand 4. The taxonomic treatment of ten endemic abaxially hairy-leaved species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 49(1): 41–106.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Nationally Vulnerable]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Nationally Vulnerable]
