Pimelea amabilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to northern Queensland. It is a small shrub with narrowly elliptic or elliptic leaves and spikes of hairy, yellowy-green or yellow, tube-shaped flowers.
Pimelea amabilis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has densely hairy young stems. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to elliptic, mostly long and wide, on a petiole long, both surface densely hairy. The flowers are borne in spikes of 75 to 250 on a densely hairy rachis long. The flowers are yellowy-green or yellow, the floral tube long, the sepals long and densely hairy on the outside. Flowering occurs from January to August.[1] [2]
This pimelea was first formally described in 1928 by Karel Domin in his Bibliotheca Botanica.[3] The specific epithet (amabilis) means "lovable" or "pleasing".[4]
Pimelea amabilis grows on rocky outcrops, mostly from the Hann Tableland to Mount Garnet and Mount Surprise in north Queensland.