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Hibbertia platyphylla

Hibbertia platyphylla
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hibbertia platyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to south-eastern South Australia. It is a shrub with linear stem leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils with ten to fifteen stamens arranged on one side of two carpels.

Where it grows

Subspecies halmaturorum usually grows in mallee and mainly occurs in the western parts of Kangaroo Island. Subspecies major often grows on rocky slopes in woodland on the south-east coast of South Australia but also on the Eyre Peninsula and scattered parts of the central Yorke Peninsula. Subspecies platyphylla often grows near surface limestone and is found on the coast, southern Yorke Peninsula and south-eastern Eyre Peninsula.

Other Hibbertia plants

Bandalup Buttercup · Hibbertia acaulothrix · Needle Leaved Guinea Flower · Prickly Guinea Flower · Hibbertia acrotrichion · Pointed Hibbertia · Hibbertia alopecota · Hibbertia ambita · Hibbertia amplexicaulis · Hibbertia ancistrophylla · Hibbertia ancistrotricha · Hibbertia andrewsiana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia platyphylla 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.

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