Tasmanian Wildflowers: Bassian Guineaflower Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
By MAC-001 on 08-Sep-20. Waypoint GA17173

The third one in this series of Tasmanian Wildflowers as moveable caches. Keep an eye out for the rest of them and move them along.

To be COVID safe, feel free NOT to open the cache and sign the logbook, if you wish to, please bring your own sanitiser.

Or just keep in moving without opening, all details should be visable from the outside of the cache container.

Hibbertia hirtcalyx is an erect, spreading or decumbent shrubs to between one and three metres high; branches pubescent. Vestiture of tubercle-based, often antrorse simple and or stellate hairs over smaller stellate and sometimes simple hairs. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-obolanceolate, (5.6–)8–17(–25.6) mm long, 2–8(–10.2) mm wide, stellate-pubescent, often only tubercles persistent on upper surface of juvenile leaves; petiole 0.4–1.4 mm long; apex obtuse to rounded, often mucronate; margins narrow, recurved to revolute, distant from the scarcely raised central vein. Flowers on peduncles 2–8 mm long, terminal, but sometimes apparently axillary when on reduced short shoots or on main branches with continued axillary growth, subtended by 1 linear bract 3–4.4 mm long, usually two-thirds to as long as sepals; sepals 3.2–6.2 mm long, unequal, stellate pubescent usually with scattered, much longer simple hairs; petals cuneate to obovate-cuneate, 6–9.6 mm long, bright yellow; stamens (7–)8–12; filaments usually at least half connate; carpels 2, stellate-villous. Flowers from September to November each year.

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