Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia fumana
Common name
A guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Open forest in the transition zone between dry forest and woodland. Western Sydney.
Notes
Shrub to 0.2 m high, sprawling to prostrate. Tips of the inner calyx lobes sharp pointed. Branches wiry, with raised leaf bases continuing a short way down the stems, hairy with stalked stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.19–0.65 cm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, upper surface more or less flat, hairy with fine hairs to almost hairless, lower surface hairy with stalked stellate hairs and a few longer coarse simple hairs on the flanks of the margins, with a broadened central vein recessed below the level of the rolled down margins and protruding into the tip. Tufts of simple hairs at the bases of the leaves. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 4–5.2 mm long. Stamens 5-7, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, hairy with stalked stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see). Flowers single, at the ends of the branches, on stalks 2-9 mm long.
Critically Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20323 (accessed 30 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~fumana (accessed 30 April 2021)
Description partly based on: Duretto, M.F., Orme, A.E., Rodd, J., Stables, M. & Toelken, H. (2017), Hibbertia fumana (Dilleniaceae), a species presumed to be extinct rediscovered in the Sydney area, Australia. Telopea 20: 143-146
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