Pimelea urvilleana is a ground spreading shrub in the Thymelaeaceae family.

urvilleana is a small prostrate shrub, with stout, flexible stems up to 30 cm long.

The branchlets are covered with dense matted white hair.

nesica differs in having paler and larger green leaves which are not keeled and less hairy branchlets, than subspecies urvilleana.

[1] It was first described in 1832 by Achille Richard,[1][2] but was redescribed in 2009 by Colin James Burrows when the two subspecies were differentiated and P. urvilleana subsp.