Hibbertia ericifolia
Hook.f.Shrubs with erect, rarely decumbent or prostrate, branches to 0.6 m long. Vestiture of stems of forward-directed to patent, simple, tubercle-based hairs. Petioles 0.2–0.5 mm long. Leaves oblong-elliptic, 1.5–6.5 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, shortly puberulous or with scattered tubercle-based hairs or simply tubercles on upper lamina, lower lamina puberulous with mixed short stellate and simple hairs, often obscured, but midrib prominent with scattered forward-directed simple hairs; apex acute, usually slightly decurved, glabrous or with a short tuft of a few hairs; margins narrow, revolute. Flowers on peduncle 1–5 mm long, terminal on long and short shoots, subtended by 1(–3) lanceolate to spathulate bracts c. 1 mm long; sepals 3.3–6.1 mm long, unequal, glabrous or almost so; petals obovate, 3.8–8.4 mm long, yellow; stamens 12–24; filaments mostly free; carpels 3, villous. Flowers Oct.–Feb.
GipP, OtP, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. GipP, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Also NSW, Tas. Usually on shallow soils on rocky, often granitic, montane to subalpine areas in the north-east (e.g. Mt Buffalo, Pine Mountain, Wulgulmerang, Bonang areas), but nearer sea-level in East Gippsland (Cann River, Genoa areas).
Hammer (2024) elevated the NSW endemic Hibbertia ericifolia subsp. acutifolia to species rank. Consequently no infraspecific taxa are recognised in Hibbertia ericifolia.
Hammer, T. A. (2024). New combinations in the Hibbertia vestita (Dilleniaceae) species group from New South Wales. Swainsona 38: 141–152.
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