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Hibbertia echiifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a variable shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped or oblong leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, with twenty-nine to forty-five stamens arranged around the three carpels.
This variable hibbertia occurs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the northern part of the Northern Territory on the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. Subspecies cernua grows in scrub in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, subspecies echiifolia in heath in coastal areas of the northern Kimberley, north-eastern Northern Territory and Cape York Peninsula, macrantha in woodland, mainly in Arnhem Land, oligantha in rocky places in woodland in Arnhem Land and subspecies rotata in woodland on sandstones or scree slopes in Arnhem Land.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia echiifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
