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Family: Dilleniaceae
Hibbertia glaberrima

Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:1 (1862).

Synonymy: H. muelleri: ferdinandi Gilg, Natürl. Pflanzenfam. 3, 6:117, nom. illegil. , Hibbertia muelleri-ferdinandi

Common name: None

Description:
Glabrous spreading shrub to 50 cm high; leaves linear-oblong to lanceolate or linear-elliptic, slightly recurved at the tip, usually 30-100 x 2-12 mm.

Flowers 2-3 cm across, on solitary peduncles 1-3 cm long; bract at the base of the calyx 1, linear, leaf-like but shorter than the sepals; sepals ovate, 15-18 mm long; petals yellow, orbicular or broadly elliptic, more or less obtuse at the apex; stamens 100-150, all round the carpels, with a few staminodes on the outside of the stamens.

Carpels 3, glabrous, with 6-9 ovules in each.

image of FSA1_Hibbertia_gla.jpg Hibbertia glaberrima
Image source: fig 200e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW.   N.T.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: at all times of the year.


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