Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia procumbens
Common name
Spreading guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Heath, shrubland, and swampy areas. Coastal north from the Hawkebury River.
Notes
Prostrate shrub, often mat-forming. Stems more or less hairless. Leaves alternating along the stems or clustered, 0.3–2 cm long, 0.4–2.1 mm wide, tips pointed, sometimes becoming blunt, surfaces hairless or almost hairless, glaucous, margins entire, leaves without an obvious midrib. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 4–15 mm long. Stamens 18–25 in groups around the carpels. Carpels 4, rarely 5, hairlesss. Flowers single at the ends of the stems, stalkless. Flowers mainly summer.
Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10401 (accessed 6 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~procumbens (accessed 6 January, 2021)
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