Hibbertia calycina
Lesser Guinea Flower
Lesser Guinea Flower
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Overview:
Hibbertia calycina, commonly known as the lesser guinea flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia
It is a small shrub with linear leaves and yellow flowers with eight to eighteen stamens in a single cluster on one side of the two carpels
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
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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
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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
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