Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn.

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Name scientific

Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 186 (1788)

Preferred name

Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn.

Taxonomy reference

Burrows, C.J. 2008: Genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in New Zealand 1. The taxonomic treatment of seven endemic, glabrous-leaved species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 46: 127–176.

Linked name

Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn. 1788

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Gaertn.

Authors

Sol. ex Gaertn.

Publication place

Gaertner, J. 1788: De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. Vol. 1. Stuttgart.

Year published

1788

Publication page

186

Nomenclatural status

conserved

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn.

Type taxon

Pimelea laevigata Sol. ex Gaertn.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pimelea

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malvales

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Genus

Pimelea

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Rice flower

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Pimelea Sol. ex Gaertn.

Description

Fls unisexual to perfect, us. capitate to solitary. Calyx tubular (hypanthium ?), us. swollen at base, 4-lobed (sepals ?); petal scales 0; stamens 2, inserted on throat, filaments slender, anthers introrse; disk 0. Ovary 1-celled, style us. elongate; ovule solitary; fr. small, drupaceous or dry. About 80 spp. of shrubs or subshrubs of Australia and N.Z., with a few in Timor and Lord Howe Is; the N.Z. spp. endemic; the fls mostly functionally unisexual; the ♂ us. larger than ♀, with long filaments, small stigma and abortive ovary; the ♀ with subsessile ± aborted stamens and longer stigma, receptacle villous.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.