Pimelea floribunda is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and drooping, head-like clusters of white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers.
Pimelea floribunda is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has glabrous stems. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, long, wide and glabrous. The flowers are arranged in drooping heads of many flowers, the heads usually surrounded by 4 egg-shaped involucral bracts long and wide. The floral tube is long and the sepals long. Flowering occurs from July to October.[1] [2]
Pimelea floribunda was first formally described in 1857 by Carl Meissner in de Candolle's Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis[3] from specimens collected by James Drummond.[4] The specific epithet (floribunda) means "flowering profusely".[5]
This pimelea grows on coastal sand dunes, limestone ridges and lateritic breakaways in near-coastal areas between Northampton, and Wanneroo, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Pimelea floribunda is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.