Pimelea lanata is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and erect clusters of white to deep pink flowers surrounded by 4, mostly green, involucral bracts.
Pimelea lanata is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are narrowly elliptic, usually long and wide and sessile, or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in erect clusters, surrounded by 4 mostly green involucral bracts that are long, wide, each flower on a pedicel long. The floral tube is long, the sepals long, and the stamens are longer than the sepals. Flowering occurs mainly from December to February.[1] [2] [3]
Pimelea lanata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his book Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4] [5] The specific epithet (lanata) means "woolly".[6]
This pimelea grows in winter-wet places on near-coastal plains between Perth and Albany in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Pimelea lanata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.