Pimelea ferruginea, commonly known as pink rice flower[1] or coastal banjine,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is a dense, erect shrub with elliptic to narrowly elliptic leaves and head-like clusters of pale to deep pink, tube-shaped flowers.
Pimelea ferruginea is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and usually has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are elliptic to narrowly elliptic with the edges curved down, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are pale to deep pink and borne in erect, head-like clusters on a hairy peduncle long, surrounded by 4 broadly egg-shaped bracts long, each flower on a hairy pedicel long. The floral tube is long, the sepals long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to February.[3] [4]
Pimelea ferruginea was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.[5] [6] The specific epithet (ferruginea) means "rust-coloured".[7]
Pink rice flower grows on coastal sand dunes and rocky headlands in near-coastal areas between Cliff Head near Arrowsmith, and Point Culver, in the Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Pimelea ferruginea is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.