Family: Dilleniaceae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 60cm high.
Flowers: Yellow flowers with 5 broad spreading petals 1-1.5cm across and 10-12 stamens surrounding one hairless carpel. Flowers terminal and sessile.
Flowering: August-October.
Fruit: Follicle
Leaves: Clustered, spathulate 5-12mm long and 2-5mm wide with recurved margins and a notched tip. The leaves are folded along their length.
Habitat: In shallow sandy soils in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Spathulate notched leaves. Small sessile 5-petalled yellow flowers. Carpel/style solitary.
Name:
Hibbertia After the English merchant and patron of botany George Hibbert
monogyna From Latin = having a single set of female parts
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
- |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, |
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Clustered |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Spoon |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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