Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia dentata
Common name
Twining guinea flower, Trailing guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Forest, sometimes in rocky areas. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Woody twiner with wiry stems to about 3 m long, sometimes trailing. Stems hairless to densely hairy with simple wart based hairs. Young stems purplish, older stems with scars that encircle the stems. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.2–7 cm long, 9–30 mm wide, tips pointed to blunt, margins toothed, occasionally entire, surfaces hairy with simple hairs when young, usually becoming hairless with age, lower surface often purplish red, base blunt, with a distinct leaf stalk. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 8–30 mm long. Stamens more than 30, surrounding the carpels. Carpels 3, hairless. Flowers single, at the bases of the leaves or at the ends of short shoots, stalks 0.3–19 mm long. Flowering: chiefly spring.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~dentata (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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