Flora of Victoria

Shrubs with erect, spreading or rarely decumbent branches to 0.6 m long, pubescent to tomentose. Vestiture of usually crisped, forward-directed simple hairs. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, 6–45 mm long, 1.5–14 mm wide, puberulous to tomentose or glabrescent; apex obtuse to truncate, rarely emarginate, mucro soon wearing off; central vein obscure. Flowers sessile, terminal on mainly short shoots with 2 or 3 obtuse oblong bracts 2.8–3.6 mm long; sepals 4.8–8.5 mm long, unequal, puberulous to pubescent; petals obovate, 6.6–16 mm long, pale to mid yellow; stamens 30 or more, arranged around ovary; filaments free; carpels 3, glabrous. Flowers Sep.–Dec.

CVU, EGL, EGU, GipP, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, MonT, NIS, SnM, VAlp, VRiv, VVP. Also Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas (?extinct). Common on shallow, often gravelly soils in drier, often elevated forest and woodlands chiefly in the east, but with western outliers in the southern Grampians and Bendigo Whipstick areas.

Source: Toelken, H.R. (1996). Dilleniaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 2018-01-05

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder [Dillenianae]

order [Dilleniales]

family Dilleniaceae

genus Hibbertia

Higher taxa

species Hibbertia obtusifolia DC.

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Hibbertia obtusifolia in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Hibbertia obtusifolia in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native
Snowy Mountains	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria