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 targeted strategy for managing this species has been developed under the Saving Our Species program; click
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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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