Family: Dilleniaceae
Plant: A small, erect, spreading shrub up to 40cm high.
Flowers: Yellow flower with 5 broad spreading petals 2cm across and 6-12 stamens usually surrounding 3 hairless carpels. Stalkless axillary flowers with hairless sepals.
Flowering: July-December.
Fruit: Follicle that opens to shed its seeds at maturity.
Leaves: Slender linear, 4-6mm long and 0.5mm wide, crowded into bundles along stems. The leaves are convex below with incurved margins.
Habitat: Heathland.
Features: Small shrub with clustered linear leaves. Small stalkless 5-petalled yellow flowers.
Name:
Hibbertia After the English merchant and patron of botany George Hibbert
fasciculata From Latin = clustered (referring to its leaves)
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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 |
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, |
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12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Green, 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 |
Linear |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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