Thymelaeaceae Juss.
Pimelea Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn. , nom. cons., scientific
Gaertner, J. (December 1788), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1: 186 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Pimelea laevigata Gaertner (nom. illeg.)
Meisner, C.D.F. (1854), Plantae Muellerianae: Thymeleae. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 26: 345 [secondary reference]
Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1857), Thymelaeaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(2): 496 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Aschenfeldtia Meisn. nom. inval., pro syn.
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 1 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Thecanthes Wikstr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptrostegia C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Macrostegia Turcz. nom. illeg.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 73 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Thecanthes Wikstr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptrostegia C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Macrostegia Turcz. nom. illeg.
Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum: 59 [basionym]
basionym of: Banksia sect. Pimelea (Gaertn.) Kuntze legitimate
Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3): 391-394 BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 91 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 455 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 159-160 [secondary reference]
Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 230 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 395-396 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Greek pimele, fat: probably alluding to the fleshy cotyledons."
Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 592-593 [secondary reference]
Cruikshank, R.H. (1953), Chromosome Numbers in the Genus Pimelea. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 87: 13-16 [secondary reference]
Ding Hou (December 1960), Thymelaeaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 6(1): 44-47 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 176 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 230 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 616-619 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 260-262 [secondary reference]
Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 192 [secondary reference]
Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 417 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Cookia J.F.Gmel. nom. illeg.
Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1: 176 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Banksia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. rej.
Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 2: 813 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate
Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 222 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 636, 637 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 206 [secondary reference]
Threlfall, S. (26 January 1983), The genus Pimelea (Thymelaeaceae) in eastern mainland Australia. Brunonia 5(2): 118 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Banksia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Thecanthes Wikstr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 91-92 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 367-369 [secondary reference]
Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 241 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "P. laevigata J. Gaertner, nom. illeg. (Banksia prostrata J.R. Forster et G. Forster, P. prostrata (J.R. Forster et G. Forster) Willdenow)."
Rye, B.L. (9 May 1988), A revision of Western Australian Thymelaeaceae. Nuytsia 6(2): 142 BHL [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Banksia sect. Pimelea (Gaertn.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Banksia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptrostegia C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Macrostegia Turcz. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Pimelea subg. Eupimelea Gilg nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Banksia sect. Typobanksia Kuntze legitimate
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 81 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 376 [secondary reference]
common name: Rice Flowers [n/a]
Rye, B.L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 134-135 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Banksia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Cookia J.F.Gmel. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptrostegia C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. isonym taxonomic synonym: Macrostegia Turcz. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Pimelea sect. Calyptrostegia (C.A.Mey.) Benth. legitimate
Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 496 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 201 [secondary reference]
Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 913-915 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Thymelaeaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 376 [secondary reference]
common name: Rice Flowers [n/a]
Herber, B.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Thymelaeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 393, Figs. 89J, 93 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 922 [secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 541 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Pimelia Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Banksia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Cookia J.F.Gmel. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. isonym taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptrostegia C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Macrostegia Turcz. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Aschenfeldtia Meisn. nom. inval., pro syn.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, ACT, Vic, Tas
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 666 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Thecanthes Wikstr. legitimate
Foster, C.S.P., Cantrill, D.J., James, E.A., Syme, A.E., Jordan, R., Douglas, R., Ho, S.Y.W. & Henwood, M.J. (29 November 2016), Molecular phylogenetics provides new insights into the systematics of Pimelea and Thecanthes (Thymelaeaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 29(3): 194 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Thecanthes Wikstr. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Pimelia Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Banksia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Cookia J.F.Gmel. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Thecanthes Wikstr. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pimelea b. Heterolaena Endl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnococca C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptrostegia C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heterolaena (Endl.) C.A.Mey. isonym taxonomic synonym: Macrostegia Turcz. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Pimelea sect. Thecanthes (Wikstr.) Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pimelea sect. Gymnococca (C.A.Mey.) Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aschenfeldtia Meisn. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Pimelea sect. Calyptrostegia (C.A.Mey.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pimelea subg. Thecanthes (Wikstr.) Gilg legitimate taxonomic synonym: Calyptostregia C.S.P.Foster & Henwood orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, ACT, Vic, Tas