About Pimelea gigandra A.R.Bean
Pimelea gigandra A.R.Bean is a perennial, gynodioecious shrub that usually grows between 0.5 and 3 meters (1 foot 8 inches to 9 feet 10 inches) tall. Its young stems are covered in dense hairs. Leaves are arranged roughly in opposite pairs, and have an elliptic shape. They measure 33 to 82 millimeters (1.3 to 3.2 inches) long, 11 to 23 millimeters (0.43 to 0.91 inches) wide, and grow from a petiole 1.8 to 3 millimeters (0.071 to 0.118 inches) long. The upper surface of the leaves is sparsely hairy, while the lower surface ranges from sparsely to densely hairy.
Flowers grow at the ends of branches, arranged in heads that hold 10 to 19 flowers each. The flower head rachis is densely hairy and 2.0 to 3.5 millimeters (0.079 to 0.138 inches) long, the peduncle is 1 to 3 millimeters (0.039 to 0.118 inches) long, and each individual flower sits on a pedicel 0.5 to 0.8 millimeters (0.020 to 0.031 inches) long. The floral tube is 8.5 to 11 millimeters (0.33 to 0.43 inches) long and white; the sepals are 3.1 to 4.0 millimeters (0.12 to 0.16 inches) long and hairy on their outer surface. This species flowers year-round.
Pimelea gigandra is only found in an area ranging from near Mount Tamborine in south-east Queensland to Mororo in north-eastern New South Wales, where it grows in tall open forest and on the edges of rainforest.
