Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia intermedia

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Woodland, shrubland, and heath, in rocky areas, and on wet slopes. Blue Mountains and north.

Notes

Shrub to more than 0.5 m tall or sprawling. Sometimes roots at the nodes. Stems wiry, becoming woody, with raised leaf bases continuing down the stems and more or less flanged, hairy with simple and wart based hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.18–0.46 cm long, 0.45-1.1 mm wide, hairy with wart based hairs, soon hairless, the warts usually flat or recessed, lower surface with the central vein recessed, often with rows of teeth between the rolled down margins.  Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each to 6.8 mm long. Stamens 7–10, surrounding the carpels. Anthers 1.6-1.9 mm long. Carpels 3-5, hairy with simple hairs. Calyx hairless or almost hairless, outer lobes pointed and more or less ridged. Bracts at the base of the flower stalk. Flowers single at the tops of the stems, rarely on short shoots, on stalks 2-5 mm long. Flowering: spring to autumn.

Description based on: Toelken, H.R. (2013), Notes on Hibbertia subg. Hemistemma (Dilleniaceae) 9. The eastern Australian H. vestita group, including H. pedunculata and H. serpyllifolia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 26: 52-53