Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia pachynemidium

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Eucalypt woodland. Wadbilliga National Park south to near Bombala.

Notes

Shrub to 0.15 m high, mat forming. Stems wiry, densely hairy with forked hairs (needs a hand lens or a macro app on your phone/tablet to see) and scattered longer simple hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.21–0.42 cm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, with scattered wart based simple hairs particularly on the edges of the rolled down margins, lower surface with a broad central vein, protruding, or flush with the margins. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 3-8 mm long. Stamens 8-17 plus stamens not producing pollen, surrounding the carpels. Anthers 0.5-1 mm long. Filaments 1-1.2 mm long, strap-like, broadened and joined together at the base. Carpels 3, hairy. Outer calyx lobes 3-6.1 mm long, 1.5-3.2 mm wide. Flowers single, at the tops of the stems, on stalks 0.2-0.9 cm long. Flowering: spring.

Description based on Toelken, H.R. (2013), Notes on Hibbertia subg. Hemistemma (Dilleniaceae) 9. The eastern Australian H. vestita group, including H. pedunculata and H. serpyllifolia. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 26: 55-56\

Photos in PlantNET:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~pachynemidium (accessed 19 April 2021)