Hibbertia calycina

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         Lesser Guinea Flower

Conservation status: ...

• Hibbertia calycina is listed as "vulnerable" under the Tasmanian Government Threatened Species Protection Act 1995

Etymology:   

• The name Hibbertia honours George Hibbert, a patron of botany and slave trader

• 
  

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets and are sessile

• Each flower is surrounded by small leaves and a single triangular bract 1.4–2.2 mm long

•  The sepals are 4.4–6.8 mm long and hairy, the petals yellow and 5.5–6.8 mm long

• There are eight to eighteen stamens arranged in a single cluster on one side of the two woolly-hairy carpels

• Flowering occurs from September to November

Fruit:                         

Leaves:         

• The leaves are linear, mostly 5–10 mm long and about 1 mm wide on a petiole 0.3–0.9 mm long and with the edges rolled under

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Hibbertia calycina is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 30 cm

Habitat:   

• Woodland on rocky slopes on the ranges and tablelands 

Distribution:                  

• Southern NSW, the Australian Capital Territory and north-eastern Victoria

• It also occurs in a few places in eastern Tasmania where it is very rare

Additional notes:   

• Taxonomy

  • This species was first described in 1817 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and given the name Pleurandra calycina in Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale

  • In 1955, Norman Arthur Wakefield changed the name to Hibbertia calycina in The Victorian Naturalist

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibbertia_calycina (2024)