Shrub 20–80 cm high. Young stems densely hairy. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, elliptic or broadly elliptic, dark green and glabrous on adaxial surface, densely white-hairy abaxially; lamina 3–9 mm long, 2–6 mm wide. Inflorescence terminal, compact, many-flowered. Flowers bisexual or rarely female, densely hairy outside except at base, white or pink or of both colours. Hypanthium 5.5–7.5 mm long, circumscissile, partially hairy inside; style-portion 3.5–4.5 mm long. Sepals spreading, 2–3 mm long, glabrous inside. Stamens inserted at base of and shorter than sepals; anther locules semi-latrorse. Style exserted.
Endemic in Tasmania, recorded from the Cradle Mountain, Mount Barrow and Mount Wellington areas.
Occurs on alpine or subalpine moorland, mainly at altitudes of 750–1400 m.
Tas.: Lake Dobson, Mount Field National Park, N.T. Burbidge 3263 (HO); Mount Wellington, J.H. Hemsley 6132 (HO); Cradle Mountain, Dec. 1926, Lindon (HO); Mount Barrow, 1949, J. Somerville (HO).
M. Stones & W.M. Curtis, Endemic Fl. Tasmania 2: figs 73, 74 (1969).
Author - B.L. Rye
Contributor - John R. Busby (ed. May 2020)
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Cite this profile as: B.L. Rye. Pimelea sericea, in (ed.), Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Pimelea%20sericea [Date Accessed: 19 September 2025]