Hibbertia marginata
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Hibbertia marginata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Dilleniales |
| Family: | Dilleniaceae |
| Genus: | Hibbertia |
| Species: | H. marginata |
| Binomial name | |
| Hibbertia marginata | |
Hibbertia marginata, commonly known as bordered guinea flower,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the North Coast of New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with hairy young branches, oblong to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers with thirty to forty stamens and many staminodes arranged around three hairy carpels.
Hibbertia marginata is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 50–70 cm (20–28 in) with finely hairy, wiry young branches and that forms suckers. The leaves are more or less oblong to lance-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, 10–40 mm (0.39–1.57 in) long, 3–8 mm (0.12–0.31 in) wide on a petiole 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets, 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in) in diameter, and sessile with leaf-like bracts about 10 mm (0.39 in) long. The sepals are hairy, 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) long, the outer sepals usually longer than the inner ones. The petals are yellow, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–15 mm (0.39–0.59 in) long with thirty to fifty stamens and many staminodes arranged around three hairy carpels, each carpel with six ovules. Flowering occurs in September and October.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy
Hibbertia marginata was first formally described in 1990 by Barry Conn in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected in 1987.[4][6]