Blue Mountains Guinea Flower

Hibbertia bracteata

''Hibbertia bracteata'' is a species of flowering plant, in the family Dilleniaceae, and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with lance-shaped to oblong leaves and yellow flowers with about sixteen stamens arranged on one side of the two carpels.
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Appearance

''Hibbertia bracteata'' is an erect, openly-branched shrub with glabrous branches that typically grows to a height of up to 100 cm. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towrds the base, to oblong, 10–30 mm long and 4–7 mm wide with a small point on the end.

The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets and are sessile. Each flower sits on a ring of brown bracts. The sepals are 12–15 mm long and densely silky-hairy, the petals yellow and about 10 mm long. There are about sixteen stamens arranged on one side of the two silky-hairy carpels. Flowering occurs from late winter to summer.

Distribution

''Hibbertia bracteata'' is widespread in heath and forest in the Sydney district and in the Blue Mountains.

Habitat

''Hibbertia bracteata'' is widespread in heath and forest in the Sydney district and in the Blue Mountains.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderDilleniales
FamilyDilleniaceae
GenusHibbertia
SpeciesH. bracteata
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