Hibbertia acuminata B.J.Conn APNI*
Description: Erect shrub 30–100 cm high, sometimes decumbent, branches and young leaves with scattered long ± spreading whitish hairs.
Leaves oblanceolate, 10–30 mm long, 3–8 mm wide, apex rounded to mucronate, margins mostly entire, lamina with scattered hairs, base stem-clasping.
Flowers sessile on short shoots. Sepals 8–10 mm long, silky in central region, margins glabrous and ± membranous, apex acuminate. Petals 7–10 mm long. Stamens c. 40, surrounding carpels. Carpels 3, glabrous.
Flowering: winter to spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Usually on sandstone, from coastal headlands to the ranges, especially on the Richmond Ra.; from Coffs Harbour to Mt Warning.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Text by G. J. Harden & J. Everett Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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