Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia empetrifolia subsp. empetrifolia
Common name
A hibbertia
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m high, sprawling to prostrate, or scrambling over other vegetation. Stems to sparsely hairy with simple and wart-based stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.28–1.68 cm long, 0.6–6.4 mm wide, upper surface soon becoming hairless, lower surface almost hairless or with short hooked hairs, not persisitng, tips more or less rounded, rarely mucronate, margins rolled down, often covering much of the undersurface between the margins and the central vein,. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 3.2–6.1 mm long. Stamens 4–9, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, stellate hairy. Flowers single or rarely in pairs, at the tops of the stems, on stalks 1.3-10.4 mm long. Flowers most of the year.
Hybridises with Hibbertia aspera subsp. aspera in areas where the two species grow together, e.g. at Thirlmere, Picton Lakes and Green Cape.
Description mainly based on: Toelken, H.R. (1998), Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 2. The H. aspera - empetrifolia complex. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 18(2): 137-142, fig. 7A-F
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~empetrifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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