Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Hibbertia simulans

Common name

A guinea flower

Family

Dilleniaceae

Where found

Shrubland on mountain tops and in moist sites. Tablelands and Western Slopes north from the Yass district.

Notes

Shrub to 1 m tall. Branches hairy, with many short spreading simple hairs and a few long simple hairs, often not obviously wart based. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.28-0.72 cm long,  0.7-1.5 mm wide, upper surface hairy with short simple hairs, margins rolled down, the underside with a broadened central vein usually recessed or rarely raised to the level of the margins and continued into or sometimes overtopping the tips, undersuface otherwise not visible. Tufts of hairs at the bases of the leaves. Flowers with 5 yellow petals 5.8-8.6 mm long, the tips slightly notched. Stamens 8-14, inserted on one side of the carpels, the filaments joined together at the base. Carpels 2, densely hairy with long shaggy simple hairs. Calyx lobes shaggy hairy with simple hairs. Flowers single, at the tops of the main branches and on short shoots. Flowers: Sept.-Nov.

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

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: 42-44, fig. 10A-F