{{Short description|Species of shrub}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Speciesbox |image = Strettle Road Reserve Pimelea-7.jpg |genus = Pimelea |species = spectabilis |authority = Lindl.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Pimelea spectabilis'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/70570 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name="APC" /> |synonyms = * ''Banksia spectabilis'' <small>(Lindl.) Kuntze</small> * ''Heterolaena spectabilis'' <small>(Lindl.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Fisch. & Ave-Lall.</small> * ''Pimelea spectabilis'' <small>Lindl.</small> var. ''spectabilis'' }} '''''Pimelea spectabilis''''', or '''bunjong''',<ref name=WA>{{FloraBase|name=''Pimelea spectabilis'' |id=5264 }}</ref> is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with very narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of white, pale pink or pale yellow flowers surrounded by 4 or 6 egg-shaped involucral bracts.
==Description== ''Pimelea spectabilis'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|0.5–2|m}} and usually has a single stem at ground level. The leaves are narrowly or very narrowly elliptic, {{cvt|11–55|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–7|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|0.5–1.5|mm}} long. The upper surface is often bluish and the lower surface is a paler shade of green. The flowers are white, pale pink or pale yellow and arranged in heads on a peduncle {{cvt|2–15|mm}} long, each flower on a hairy pedicel {{cvt|1.5–2.0|mm}} long. The heads are surrounded by 4 or 6 egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped, green to reddish involucral bracts {{cvt|16–30|mm}} long and {{cvt|9–20|mm}} wide. The flower tube is {{cvt|13–19|mm}} long, the sepals {{cvt|4–6|mm}} long, and the stamens are longer than the sepals. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November.<ref name="WA" /><ref name="foa">{{cite web |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=''Pimelea spectabilis'' |url= https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20spectabilis |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment: Canberra |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Nuytsia2">{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. |journal=Nuytsia |date=1988 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=236–238|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/232337#page/112/mode/1up |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Nuytsia1">{{cite journal |last1=Rye |first1=Barbara L. |title=An updated revision of ''Pimelea'' sect. Heterolaena (Thymelaeaceae), including two new taxa |journal=Nuytsia |date=1999 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=189–190 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225337#page/195/mode/1up |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Pimelea spectabilis'' was first formally described in 1839 by John Lindley in his ''A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony''.<ref name="APNI">{{cite web |title=''Pimelea spectabilis'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/481218/api/apni-format |website=APNI |accessdate=2 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Lindl.">{{cite book |last1=Lindley |first1=John |title=A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony |date=1839 |publisher=James Ridgway |location=London |page=xli |url=https://archive.org/details/sketchvegetatio00goog/page/n48/mode/2up |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref> The specific epithet (''spectabilis'') means "remarkable" or "spectacular".<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=310 |edition=3rd}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== This pimelea usually grows on hills, often in jarrah forest, and occurs between Cape Naturaliste and the Fitzgerald River National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.<ref name="WA" /><ref name="Nuytsia2" /><ref name="Nuytsia1" />
==Conservation status== ''Pimelea sessilis'' is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.<ref name="WA" /> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}}
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spectabilis Category:Rosids of Western Australia Category:Malvales of Australia Category:Taxa named by John Lindley Category:Plants described in 1839