Hibbertia exutiacies
N.A.Wakef.Shrubs to 50 cm high, with spreading to decumbent, usually puberulous branches. Vestiture of simple or rarely bifid, tubercle-based hairs. Leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 2.2–10.4 mm long, 0.6–1.3 mm wide, with deciduous terminal point; puberulous above, becoming glabrous; petiole 0–0.4 mm long; margins narrow, revolute, raised above glabrous broad central ridge beneath. Flowers sessile, terminal on mainly short shoots with 3 or 4 triangular awned bracts 0.6–1.2 mm long; sepals 3.8–6 mm long, subequal, glabrous; petals obovate, 3.6–8.4 mm long, mid to bright yellow; stamens 4–6 in one group; filaments almost free to more than half connate; carpels 2, tomentose. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS. Also SA. Qld. Occurring in woodlands of northern and western goldfields, near Bacchus Marsh, and scattered records in the north-east (Whitfield, Chiltern areas). Usually in gravelly soils, often with outcropping rock.
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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