Pimelea aquilonia is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to far north Queensland. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and small clusters of hairy, white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.
Pimelea aquilonia is a perennial shrub that typically grows to a height of and has shiny, densely hairy young stems. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, long and wide, on a short petiole. The flowers are borne in small clusters on the ends of branches, and are white or cream-coloured, densely covered with short, shiny hairs. The floral tube is long, the sepals long and glabrous on the inside. Flowering occurs from May to July.[1] [2]
Pimelea aquilonia was first formally described in 2017 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the Flora of Australia from specimens collected by Leonard John Brass on Cape York Peninsula in 1948.[3]
This pimelea mainly grows in windswept, near-coastal shrubland, from the tip of Cape York Peninsula to further south, and possibly as far south as Mount Pieter Botte.