Hibbertia fasciculata DC. APNI*
Description: Small erect or diffuse shrub to 40 cm high; branches glabrous except for pubescent new growth.
Leaves clustered, narrow-linear, 4–6 mm long, to 0.5 mm wide, margins incurved, softly pubescent to glabrous.
Flowers axillary, sessile. Sepals 4–6 mm long, glabrous. Petals 7–9 mm long. Stamens 8–12, usually completely surrounding carpels. Carpels 3, glabrous.
Flowering: winter to early summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread on sandy soils in heath and dry sclerophyll forest on the coast and ranges.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden & J. Everett Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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