Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia obtusifolia
Common name
Hoary guinea flower, Grey guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Variety of habitats, mainly dry forest, woodland, heath, and disturbed grassy areas. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 0.8 m high, or sprawling to prostrate. Stems and leaves greyish, hairy with simple wavy hairs or stellate hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see), stems usually becoming hairless with age. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6-5 cm long, 1.5–14 mm wide, spoon-shaped to oblong, tips blunt, often with a mucro or notched, margins usually curved down. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals 6.6–15 mm long. Stamens usually 30–40, surrounding the carpels. Carpels 2-3, hairless. Flowers single, stalkless, at the ends of short shoots or more or less at the bases of the leaves. Flowering: spring to autumn and sporadically throughout the year.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~obtusifolia (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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