pimelea prostrata/anemia

Experimental chronic Pimelea poisoning, with severe anaemia, was produced in 4 calves by daily oral dose rates of Pimelea trichostachya of between 20 to 60 mg/kg body weight of whole plant. Bone marrow function was studied before and during intoxication using 59Fe to determine plasma iron clearance

A dense population of Pimelea trichostachya plants (Family Thymelaeaceae) in pasture poisoned a horse herd in southern inland Queensland in October-November 2005. Plant density was 2 to 45 g wet weight/m(2) (mean 16 g/m(2)) from 5 to 69 plants/m(2) (mean 38 plants/m(2)) representing 3 to 20% (mean

Six young cattle were intoxicated with either stem or extracts of stem of Pimelea trichostachya or P. continua. Oral dosage with whole plant or alcoholic extracts was shown to reproduce all the clinical and pathological features of the various field syndromes known collectively as "St. George