Hibbertia dentata
R.Br. ex DC. Trailing Guinea-flowerClimbers with wiry, glabrous to pubescent branches to c. 2.5 m long. Vestiture of long simple tubercle-based hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, 2.2–5.6 cm long, 0.9–2.8 cm wide, acute to acuminate, rarely obtuse; petiole 3–14 mm long; margins dentate-serrate to entire, flat or scarcely recurved. Flowers on peduncle 0.3–19 mm long, terminal on short shoots with a basal triangular bract 3–7 mm long; sepals 4–8 mm long, subequal, ovate, usually acuminate, pubescent mainly toward apex; petals obovate, 8–21 mm long, mid yellow; stamens numerous in a ring around the ovary; filaments connate basally; carpels 3, glabrous. Flowers Oct–Nov.
GipP, EGL, EGU, HSF, HFE. Also Qld, NSW. Confined to lowlands east from Orbost where occurring in moist open-forest, and sometimes rocky outcrop areas (e.g. Genoa Peak) with a single collection supposedly from the Avon Wilderness Area further west. A single collection from Dandenong in 1901 is likely to be of cultivated origin.
Toelken, H.R. (1996). Dilleniaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 300–313. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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