Flowering plant of Eastern Australia
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Hibbertia dispar is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a prostrate to low-lying shrublet with hairy, linear leaves and yellow flowers arranged on the ends of branchlets, usually with four to six stamens in a cluster on one side of two carpels.
Description.
"Hibbertia dispar" is a prostrate to low-lying shrublet that typically grows up to high with hairy branches up to long. The leaves are linear, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches and sessile, or on a peduncle up to long. There are up to three linear to lance-shaped bracts long. The outer sepals lobes are long and the inner lobes long. The five petals are lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, yellow and long. There are usually four to six stamens arranged in a bundle on one side of the two (rarely three) hairy carpels, each carpel usually with four ovules. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November.
Taxonomy.
"Hibbertia dispar" was first formally described in 2013 by Hellmut R. Toelken in the "Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens" from specimens collected by Alexander Clifford Beauglehole near Boisdale in 1973. The specific epithet ("dispar") means "unlike", referring to the species' unusual characteristics.
Distribution and habitat.
This hibbertia grows in a range of habitats but often on rocky slopes or along creeks. It is found on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, in Gippsland, Victoria and on some Tasmanian islands.
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