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Pimelea actea; photograph (c) Arnim Littek, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Arnim Littek, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-09-12

Pimelea actea C.J.Burrows

Thymelaeaceae · New Zealand North

No habitat climate
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Summary

Pimelea actea is a small coastal plant native to New Zealand. It was named and described by Colin J. Burrows in 2008 as part of a revision of the New Zealand Pimelea, a project he had begun as a Master's thesis in the 1950s and continued in his retirement. Burrows described the species, which for some time had been referred to as Pimelea "Turakina", from a specimen collected in 1968, now in the Auckland Museum. Its species name, actea, means "coastal".

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pimelea actea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 31 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 31 of the 31 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Zealand North · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-40.318, 175.259 · in the densest population, 31 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 31 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 26 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 31 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 31 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Arnim Littek, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Pimelea 23 in the reference

Pimelea altior Pimelea altior Short-leaved riceflower Photo: CC BY, AuradymePimelea buxifolia Pimelea buxifolia Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellPimelea carnosa Pimelea carnosa Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY, Emily RobertsPimelea ciliata Pimelea ciliata Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC BY, Belinda ForbesPimelea ferruginea Pimelea ferruginea Coastal Banjine Photo: CC BY-SA, CarmonPimelea flava Pimelea flava Yellow riceflower Photo: CC BY, Ian RainbowPimelea glauca Pimelea glauca Smooth riceflower Photo: CC0, author not statedPimelea humilis Pimelea humilis Thymelaeaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPimelea ligustrina Pimelea ligustrina Tall riceflower Photo: CC BY, Petra HollandPimelea linifolia Pimelea linifolia Flax-leaf riceflower Photo: CC BY, Sofia ZvolanekPimelea longifolia Pimelea longifolia Long-leaved pimelea Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellPimelea microcephala Pimelea microcephala Mallee riceflower Photo: CC BY, Kym Nicolson all 24 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Thymelaeaceae
Described by
C.J.Burrows
Native to
New Zealand North
Wild records
31 in range · 26 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2231 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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