Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia praemorsa

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Forest and woodland on steep rocky sandstone slopes. Morton National Park, Budawang Ranges and Bundanoon.

Notes

Shrub to 1.3 m high. Stems hairy, the hairs a mixture of long and short spreading simple hairs, both more or less wart-based. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.51-1.32 cm long, 2.4-7.6 mm wide, surfaces hairy with simple hairs, the undersurface visible, central vein not or scarcely raised, tips blunt to rounded or slightly notched due to the curved down tip. Tufts of hairs at the bases of the leaves. Flowers with 5 petals, yellow with a reddish central vein, each 5.1–8.8 mm long. Stamens 7–9, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, hairy with simple hairs. Flowers single, stalkless, at the tops of the stems. Flowers Oct– Feb.

Description partly based on: Toelken, H.R. (2000), Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 3. H. sericea [1] [2] and associated species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 19: 25-27, fig. 6A-G

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~praemorsa  (accessed 19 January, 2021)