Hibbertia decumbens Toelken APNI* Synonyms: Hibbertia empetrifolia sensu Harden & Everist (1990), in part APNI*
Description: Spreading to almost prostrate shrubs to 40 cm high; branches ± pubescent, with hairs simple and stellate.
Leaves obovate, broad-elliptic to almost circular, 4–10 mm long, 2–7 mm wide, apex ± obtuse, often mucronate, base abruptly tapered, margins ± recurved; both surfaces with short simple erect hairs and erect hooked hairs, sometimes lower surface with a few stellate hairs on the midvein.
Flowers terminal, 1, peduncles 4–12 mm long. Sepals 3–4 mm long, outer surface stellate-pubescent , sometimes with longer simple hairs over the stellate hairs. Petals 4–7 mm long. Stamens usually 9–12, on 1 side of the carpels. Carpels 2, densely stellate hairy.
Flowering: Flowers late spring to summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sandstone ledges, in the Blue Mtns. On sandstone ledges.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Text by G. J. Harden & J. Everett
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (1999)
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