Hibbertia sessiliflora
ToelkenShrubs with spreading to decumbent, puberulous wiry branches to c. 0.5 m long. Vestiture of coarse tubercle-based simple hairs over stellate hairs. Leaves linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 3.6–9.6 mm long, 1.2–3.2 mm wide; petiole 0.3–0.6 mm long; apex obtuse with tuft of simple hairs; upper surface puberulous to glabrescent; margins revolute, raised well above the narrow central vein with stellate-tomentum and scattered simple hairs. Flowers sessile, terminal mainly on short shoots with 3 or more densely hairy triangular bracts 1.2–1.5 mm long; sepals 5.4–6.3 mm long, subequal, with coarse simple hairs over finer stellate ones; petals obovate, 3.8–9.6 mm long, mid to bright yellow; stamens 4–6 in one cluster; filaments free; carpels 2, villous. Flowers Oct.–Nov.
Wim, GleP, DunT. Also SA. Occurring in seasonally wet heathland and heathy woodland in the Edenhope-Dartmoor area to the South Australian border.
Hibbertia sessiliflora has, like H. humifusa, pronounced axillary hair tufts on leaves below the flowers.
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.
