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Hibbertia rufociliata

Hibbertia rufociliata is a small hairy shrub from a restricted area of Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland, with yellow flowers from April to July. It suits well-drained sandy soils and warm, humid conditions.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top few centimetres dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Hibbertia rufociliata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of north Queensland. It is a shrub with hairy foliage, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils with 36 to 44 stamens arranged in bundles around two densely scaly carpels.

Where it grows

This hibbertia grows on sandy ridges in forest in a few locations on Cape York Peninsula in far northern Queensland.

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 rufociliata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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