Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia linearis

Flowering stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Jervis Bay National Park, NSW

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Temora district. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Stems hairless except for young branches. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 0.8–3 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, tips blunt, with a long drawn out point, or with several notches, surfaces hairless or hairy. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 8–10 mm long. Stamens 15–25, surrounding the carpels. Carpels usually 3, hairless. Flowers single at the tops of the stems or at the bases of the leaves, stalkless or on stalks 2–3 mm long. Flowering: mainly spring to summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~linearis  (accessed 19 January, 2021)