Hibbertia ericifolia
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Dilleniales |
| Family: | Dilleniaceae |
| Genus: | Hibbertia |
| Species: | H. ericifolia |
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| Hibbertia ericifolia | |
Hibbertia ericifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is small, sometimes low-lying to spreading shrub with wiry stems, linear to narrow elliptic leaves, and yellow flowers arranged on the ends of branchlets, with ten to twenty-four stamens arranged around the three carpels.
Hibbertia ericifolia is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 50 cm (20 in) with wiry stems up to 60 cm (24 in) long. The leaves are linear to narrow elliptic or oblong, 1.5–6.5 mm (0.059–0.256 in) long and 0.5–1.1 mm (0.020–0.043 in) wide on a petiole 0.2–0.5 mm (0.0079–0.0197 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets and are more or less sessile, with up to three lance-shaped to spatula-shaped bracts at the base. The sepals are 3.3–6.1 mm (0.13–0.24 in) long and the five petals are yellow, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and 3.8–8.4 mm (0.15–0.33 in) long. There are between ten and twenty-four stamens arranged around the three carpels. each containing four ovules. Flowering mainly occurs from September to February.[2][3]