Pimelea ciliata, commonly known as white banjine,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is a small shrub with white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.
Pimelea ciliata is a small shrub usually high with almost linear or egg-shaped to narrowly obovate leaves, long, wide, margins sometimes rolled under or upward on a short petiole about long, ending with a pointed apex. The leaves are arranged in alternating pairs at right angles to the ones above and below so that the leaves are in 4 rows along the stems (decussate), upper surface is darker than the underside. The stems at the apex are orange-red to brownish becoming grey as they age. The erect inflorescence consists of several light pink or white bisexual flowers, smooth inside, pedicel long, four to six egg-shaped bracts, long, wide with small hairs on the edges. The flower stamens are marginally or greater in length than the sepals. Flowering occurs from August to December.[1] [2]
Pimelea ciliata was first formally described in 1984 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia.[2] [3]
White banjine grows in the south-west corner of Western Australia near Bindoon to near Margaret River and south-east to the Porongurup Range mostly on hills and breakaways in clay, sand, loam, granitic and lateritic soil.[1] [2]