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.
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Image source: fig 200e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW. N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: at all times of the year.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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