Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia pedunculata
Common name
Stalked Guinea-flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, and grassy areas. Coastal north from Bermagui. Otherwise widespread. No records from the Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub to 0.2 m high or sprawling. Stems wiry, hairy with simple and wart based hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.18–0.98 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, hairy with simple and wart based hairs, becoming hairless. Leaf lower surface with a moderately broad and recessed central vein usually touching the rolled down margins and with rows of teeth along the interface. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 5–10 mm long. Stamens 14–43, sometimes plus stamens not producing pollen, surrounding the 2-4 hairy carpels. Outer calyx lobes rounded, hairy to sparsely hairy outside, with an indistinct central ridge in the upper portion. Bracts just under the flower. Flowers single at the tops of the stems, on stalks 3–15 mm long. Flowering: spring to autumn, mainly spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~pedunculata (accessed 21 January, 2021)
Description partly 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: 56-57
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