Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia circumdans

Flower and leafy stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Forest. Coastal. Ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands. North of Nowra.

Notes

Shrub to 0.6 m high. Stems usually hairy, sometimes hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–1.2 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, folded longitudinally, margins more or less curved down, mostly with some prominent teeth on the squared off tips, both surfaces more or less hairy. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 4–6 mm long. Stamens 15–30, surrounding the carpels. Carpels usually 3, hairless. Flowers single, at the tops of short shoots, stalkless. Flowering: spring to autumn.

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