Hibbertia simulans


Hibbertia simulans is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a much-branched shrub with softly-hairy foliage, linear leaves and yellow flowers with eight to ten stamens on one side of two hairy carpels.

Description

Hibbertia simulans is much-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of and has softly-hairy foliage. The leaves are linear, long, wide on a petiole long, and with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branches and short side shoots with linear bracts long and wide at the base. The five sepal are joined at the base, the outer lobes slightly longer but narrower than the inner ones. The petals are yellow, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long with eight to ten stamens in a single cluster on one side of two hairy carpels, each carpel with four ovules. Flowering mostly occurs from September to November.

Taxonomy

Hibbertia simulans was first formally described in 2000 by Hellmut R. Toelken in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from specimens collected by collected on Mount Costigan. The specific epithet means "resembling", referring to a similarity to "forms in the H. stricta complex".

Distribution and habitat

This hibbertia grows in scrub vegetation on mountain tips and wetter areas of central and southern New South Wales.