Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia crinita

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, heath, shrubland, and rocky outcrops. Tablelands and Western Slopes. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 2 m high. Branches hairy with wart based stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and long silky hairs above them. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.32–2.24 cm long, 1.2–4 mm wide, both surfaces softly wart based stellate hairy and overtopped by longer silky hairs, upper surface sometimes becoming hairless. lower surface with a central ridge continuing to the tips, usually much broader than but often not touching the rolled down margins. Tufts of hairs at the bases of the leaves. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 4.5–15.3 mm long. Tufts of hair between the stamens and petals. Stamens 8–16, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, densely hairy. Calyx lobes hairy with wart based stellate hairs and long silky hairs above them. Upper two-thirds of the outer calyx lobes covered on the inside with stellate hairs. Flowers stalkless, in clusters of 1–12, surrounded by broadened leaf-like bracts and subtended by smaller leaf-like bracts

Was Hibbertia incana.

Presumed extinct Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~crinita  (accessed 20 April 2021)

Description partly based on:  Toelken, H.R. (1995), Notes on Hibbertia I. New taxa from south-eastern Australia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 16: 64-65, 67, fig. 1H-I