Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pimelea villosa subsp. arenaria (A.Cunn.) C.J.Burrows, New Zealand J. Bot. 47: 334-336 (2009)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pimelea arenaria A.Cunn., Curtis's Botanical Magazine t. 3270 (1833)
  • = Gymnococca arenaria Fisch. & C.A.Mey., Index Seminum [St.Petersburg (Petropolitanus)] 10: 47 (1845)
  • = Pimelea dasyantha Colenso, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 609 (1895 [1896])
 Description

Stems stout to slender, relatively flexible, usually prostrate to decumbent. leaves varied in size with most relatively large, spread along the branches, usually patent (later deflexed) and distant; appearing to be somewhat distichous in appressed specimens. leaf and stem hair white.

[Reproduced from Burrows (2009, New Zealand J. Bot. 47: 325-354) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
Burrows, C.J. 2009: Genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in New Zealand 3. The taxonomic treatment of six endemic hairy-leaved species . New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 325–354.
Colenso, W. 1896: Phænogams: A description of a few more newly-discovered indigenous plants; being a further contribution towards the making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 591–613.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Lovell Reeve, London.
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Given, D.R.; Norton, D.A.; Ogle, C.C.; Johnson, P.N.; Cameron, E.K. 1999: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 603–628. [as Pimelea arenaria A.Cunn.]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [as Pimelea arenaria A.Cunn.] [Declining]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76. [as Pimelea arenaria A.Cunn.]
Fischer, F.E.; Meyer, K.A. 1845: Index Seminum, quae Hortus Botanicus Imperialis Petropolitanus pro Mutua Commutatione Offert 10: 46–47.