Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia acicularis
Common name
Prickly Guinea-flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1.5 m high or sprawling to prostrate. Leaves sharp pointed, rarely not sharp. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.32–4 cm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, margins curved to rolled down, more or less level with the hairless broad central ridge below, and more or less concealing the warty lower surface. upper surface hairy with fine hairs with simple wart-based hairs, to hairless. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 3–11 mm long. Stamens 6–8, in one cluster. Carpels 2, densely hairy. Flowers single at the bases of the leaves and at the ends of the long and short shoots, on stalks 2–24 mm long. Flowering: spring to summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~acicularis (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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