Hibbertia elata Maiden & Betche APNI* 
Description: Diffuse shrub to 100–200 cm high; stems usually hirsute.
Leaves clustered, narrow-linear to narrow-oblanceolate, usually 10–30 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, margins incurved, hirsute or glabrous.
Flowers terminal on short axillary shoots, sessile. Sepals c. 8 mm long, glabrous or margins ciliate. Petals c. 10 mm long. Stamens 15–25, surrounding carpels. Carpels 3, glabrous.
Flowering: summer to autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on shallow soils on rocky slopes; rare, in the Mudgee - Rylstone - Merriwa district and the Wallangarra district in Qld.
NSW subdivisions: CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden & J. Everett
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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