Kuntze Pimelea pygmaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Tasmania.

Pimelea pygmaea is a prostrate, cushion-like undershrub that typically grows to a height of 2–10 cm (0.79–3.94 in) and has many branches and hairy young stems.

The flowers are white, female or bisexual and arranged singly on the ends of branches on a hairy pedicel.

[2][3][4] Pimelea pygmaea was first formally described in 1854 by Carl Meissner in the journal Linnaea, from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller and Charles Stuart.

[6] This pimelea grows in alpine and subalpine moorland at altitudes above 1,000 m (3,300 ft) on the Central Plateau Conservation Area in Tasmania.