Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia monogyna
Common name
A guinea-flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Forest. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Shrub to 1 m high. Stems mostly hairless, sometimes densely hairy with simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–1.2 cm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, folded longitudinally, both surfaces generally hairless, margins flattish to curved down, mostly with some prominent teeth on the squared off tips, tips sometimes rounded. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 4–6 mm long. Stamens 10–12, surrounding the carpel. Carpel usually single, hairless. Flowers single at the tips of short shoots, stalkless. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
Data deficient Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~monogyna (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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