Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia bracteata

Flower and leafy stems. Photographer John Tann, Heathcote National Park south of Sydney

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Dry forest and heath. Sydney area and the Blue Mountains.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m high. Stems hairless except for hairy young shoots. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–3 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, more or less with a mucro, margins flat or slightly curved down, surface hairless or minutely silky. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each about 10 mm long. Stamens about 16, on 1 side of the carpels. Carpels 2, silky. Sepals densely silky. Flowers stalkless, single. Flowering: spring to summer.

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