Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia aspera subsp. aspera
Common name
Rough guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 0.6 m high, taller if a scrambling shrub. Stems hairy with simple and stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.28–1.87 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, upper surface hairy becoming hairless, covered with smooth warts; lower surface densely stellate hairy, margins more or less rolled down, tips rounded or squared off to notched. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 3.1–6.2 mm long. Stamens 2-9, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, stellate-hairy (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Flowers in clusters of 1-3 at the tops of the stems, on stalks 1.3-7.4 mm long. Flowers spring-autumn.
Hybridises with Hibbertia empetrifolia subsp. empetrifolia in areas where the two species grow together, e.g. at Thirlmere, Picton Lakes, and Green Cape.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~aspera (accessed 19 January, 2021)
Description mainly based on: Toelken, H.R. (1998), Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 2. The H. aspera - empetrifolia complex. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 18(2): 126-130, figs 1B, 2F-I, 4A-K
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