Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia pustulata

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Swampy heath and near creek lines. Blue Mountains and north.

Notes

Shrub to 0.15 m high, sprawling. Branches wiry, the bases of the leaves continuing down the stems, hairless, brown. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.43–0.86 mm long, 0.6–1.0 mm wide, tips pointed, leaves flat and hairless on the upper surface, the central vein bulging over the rolled down margins. Leaves hairy with fine hairs with simple wart based hairs when young, soon wearing off, the warts retained mainly along the margins and towards the tips. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 7.6–9.3 mm long. Stamens 4, the filaments joined together only at the base, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, hairless. Flowers single at the ends of the stems, stalkless. Flowering: August – October.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~pustulata (accessed 21 January, 2021)

Description partly based on: Toelken, H.R. & Miller, R.T. (2012), Notes on Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) 8. Seven new species, a new combination and four new subspecies from subgen. Hemistemma, mainly from the central coast of New South Wales. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 25(1): 78, Fig. 1I-L