Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia saligna

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Moist gullies. Ranges. Blue Mountains and adjacent foothills; and south from Budawang National Park.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Young stems covered in soft hairs, early becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–11 cm long, 4–15 mm wide, margins entire or toothed, upper surface hairless, lower surface whitish-hairy, bases stem-clasping, tips blunt or mucronate. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each about 15 mm long. Stamens 20–35, surrounding the carpels. Carpels 3, hairless. Sepals 12–16 mm long, silky. Flowers single, at the ends of short shoots, stalkless. Flowering: spring.

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