Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Pimelea serpyllifolia subsp. serpyllifolia
Profile last updated:
18 Oct 2022
Description
Hairless, grey-brown, densely-branched shrub, usually about 50 cm high. Leaves opposite on the stem with alternate pairs at right angles to each other, crowded, narrow-elliptical to spoon-shaped, 4-12 mm long and 2-4 mm wide, stiff and leathery. Flowers minute, tubular, greenish-yellow, male and female on separate plants, borne in terminal heads of 2-17 flowers. Fruit green, egg-shaped, somewhat succulent, enclosed in the persistent flower base, containing one black, finely-dotted seed.
Distribution
Not common in NSW, found only in the far south-western plains in the Euston district, becoming more abundant in Victoria and SA.
Habitat and ecology
- Grows in scrub and woodland on calcareous soils. Often found in sandy red soils supporting mallee scrub.
- Associated species include Eucalyptus oleosa, E. leptophylla, E. dumosa, Melaleuca lanceolata, Leptospermum laevigatum, Leucopogon parviflorus, Olearia axillaris, Myoporum insulare, Rhagodia candolleana, Acacia and Hakea spp., Spinifex and other tall grasses.
- Flowers most of the year, especially July to November.
- Plants in a population west of Euston in NSW are noted as being frequent in an area burned about 5 years ago.
- Recorded as scattered and occasional, to common and frequent in populations.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Clearing of mallee habitat (the species is restricted to an area of high agricultural use).
Recovery strategies
A Saving Our Species conservation project is currently being developed for this species and will be available soon. For information on how you can contribute to this species' recovery, see the Activities to assist this species section below.
Activities to assist this species
- Instigate monitoring studies within known populations.
- No further loss of extant populations.
- Investigate regeneration including seed-set, germination and seedling survival.
- Survey for new populations
Information sources
- Briggs, J.D. and Leigh, J.H. (1996) Rare or Threatened Australian Plants. Revised Edition. (CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne)
- Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. and Leigh, J.H. (1992) Plants of Western New South Wales. (Inkata Press, Sydney)
- Harden, G.J. (1990) Pimelea. In: Harden, G.J. (ed.). Flora of New South Wales. Vol. 1. UNSW Press, Kensington, NSW.
- Jessop, J.P. and Toelken, H.R. (eds.) (1986) Flora of South Australia. Part ll. (South Australian Government Printing Division, Adelaide)
- Pressey, R.L., Cohn, J.S. and Porter, J.L. (1990) Vascular plants with restricted distributions in the Western Division of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 112: 213-227
- Rye, B.L. (1988) A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. Nuytsia 6(2): 129-278.
- Rye, B.L. (1990) Thymelaeaceae. 9. Pimelea. Flora of Australia 18: 134-211.
- Threlfall, S. (1982) The genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in eastern mainland Australia. Brunonia 5(2): 113-201.
- Walsh, N.G. and Entwisle, T.J. (1998) Flora of Victoria; Volume 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. (Inkata Press, Melbourne)
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