Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hibbertia rufa
Common name
Brown guinea flower
Family
Dilleniaceae
Where found
Open forest, heath, sedgeland, and along streams. Tablelands north from east of Captains Flat. Ranges north from Morton National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 0.35 m high, trailing to scrambling, rarely erect. Rhizomatous or the branches rooting and/or often suckering. Stems wiry, leaf bases more or less flanged, hairless or rarely hairy with short hairs with simple hairs, usually reddish-brown. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.18–1.06 cm long, 0.8–2.5 mm wide, surfaces mostly hairless, bases cordate, margins rolled down, no undersurface visible except for a row of warts along the slit, tips pointed. Flowers with 5 yellow petals each 3.5-8.2 mm long. Stamens 3-4, the filaments fused together for most of their length, on one side of the carpels. Carpels 2, hairless. Flowers single, on stalks 0.3–24.4 mm long, at the bases of the leaves, and the tips of short shoots, forming elongated leafy clusters at the tops of the stems. Flowers Aug.–Dec.
Rare Vic.
Description mainly 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: 78-79, Fig. 1O, P
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hibbertia~rufa (accessed 19 January, 2021)
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