Pimelea leiophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with silky-hairy young stems, broadly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of 15 to 25 or more, bright white or pink, tube-shaped flowers surrounded by 4 or 8 involucral bracts.
Pimelea leiophylla is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has silky-hairy young stems. Its leaves are decussate (arranged in alternating pairs), broadly elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in erect clusters of 15 to 25 or more surrounded by 4 or 8 leaf-like involucral bracts. The flowers are bright white, occasionally pink and are either bisexual or female. The floral tube is long and the 4 sepals long. Flowering occurs from October to February.[1]
Pimelea leiophylla was first formally described in 2016 by Alan Maurice Gray and Matthew L. Baker in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected on The Hazards in 1989.[2] The specific epithet (leiophylla) means "smooth leaves".
This pimelea grows in sparse dry woodland in a few places on the Freycinet Peninsula and on Schouten Island in eastern Tasmania.