Family: Dilleniaceae
Plant: A scrambler or trailing ground cover with stems up to 2m long.
Flowers: Bright yellow flowers with 5 broad spreading petals, 3-6cm across, and with about 30 stamens surrounding 3 carpels. Flowers axillary or terminal on stalks 6-15mm long.
Flowering: August-November.
Fruit: Follicle
Leaves: Ovate, 4-7cm long and 1.5-3cm wide with sparsely toothed margins. The mature leaves are dark green and hairless but they are purplish and hairy when young. The leaves can have a pointed, rounded or notched tip.
Habitat: In dry sclerophyll forest and rainforest margins.
Features: Scrambler with toothed leaves. Large yellow flowers with many stamens.
Name:
Hibbertia After the English merchant and patron of botany George Hibbert
dentata From Greek = toothed (referring to its leaves)
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Type |
Climber/Scrambler |
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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, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Dry sclerophyll forest |
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