Citation: F. Muell., Pl. North-West. Aust. 5 (1881).

Synonymy: Ionidium aurantiacum F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:102 (1863); H. enneaspermus (L.)F. Muell. var. aurantiacus (F. Muell. ex Benth.)F. Muell., Pl. Sharks Bay 6 (1883); H. miniatus F. Muell. & Tate, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 13:97, nora. nud. in error for H. aurantiacus, see Tate, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 19:83 (1895); H. enneaspermus sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 590 (1952).

Common name: None

Description:
Compact shrub to 60 cm tall; stems scabrous or more or less glabrous; leaves alternate or clustered, linear to lanceolate, coriaceous, 1-30 mm long, pubescent or sometimes glabrous, margins serrate-dentate or occasionally entire.

Flowers solitary; sepals lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, acute, more or less keeled or ridged, pubescent, ciliate, green; anterior petal 7-15 mm long, lamina orange to yellow; lateral petals of dissimilar pairs, outer pair linear-oblong, 3-5 mm long, inner pair lanceolate-falcate, 3.5-6.5 mm long; stamens filamentous, dimorphous, 3 posterior short, 2 anterior more or less equal in length to the anthers and with sessile glabrous to densely pubescent nectaries; anthers oblong-elliptic, without locular appendages.

Capsule 5-9 mm long; seeds 5-10, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2-3 mm long, smooth, pitted, or longitudinally ribbed, yellowish-white.

	Hybanthus aurantiacus
Image source: fig 451a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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