Pimelea tinctoria is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and compact heads of many yellow or yellowish-green flowers usually surrounded by 4 to 7 pairs of egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic yellow and green involucral bracts.
Pimelea tinctoria is an erect, spindly shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a single stem at ground level. The stems and leaves are glabrous, the leaves arranged in opposite pairs, elliptic, long and wide on a short petiole. The flowers are bisexual, arranged in pendulous, compact heads, surrounded by 4 to 7 pairs of egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic, yellow and green involucral bracts long and wide. Each flower is on a hairy pedicel long, the flower tube long, the sepals long, the stamens shorter than the sepals. Flowering occurs from August to October.[1] [2]
Pimelea tinctoria was first formally described in 1845 by Carl Meissner in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected on mountains near "Wuljenup" (Woogenellup?) in the Shire of Plantagenet.[3] [4] The specific epithet (tinctoria) means "used in dyeing".[5]
This pimelea grows in sandy soil in shrubland and clearings in near-coastal areas mainly from near Denmark to near Cape Riche, and in the Stirling Range, in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Pimelea tinctoria is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.