Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia porcata

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Woodland, and the heathlike understorey of woodland. Ranges, tablelands, Kosciuszko National Park, and the mountains west of the ACT.

Notes

Shrub to 0.45 m high, sprawling to prostrate. Stems wiry to rigid and woody, hairy with simple hairs. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.13–0.74 cm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, mostly hairless, upper surface sparsely hairy to hairless, with scattered warts, lower surface with a slender recessed central vein overtopped by the rolled down margins, the hairless undersurface barely visible. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each to 11.7 mm long. Stamens 5-25, surrounding the 3 hairy carpels. Anthers 1.1-.16 mm long. Outer calyx lobes pointed, with a pronounced central ridge, hairy with long simple wart based hairs. Flowers single at the ends of the stems, on stalks 0.2-1.7 cm long. Flowering: spring-summer, sometimes autumn.

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: 57-59

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