Hibbertia montana is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, straggling or sprawling shrub with densely hairy foliage, narrow oblong leaves, and pedunculate yellow flowers with thirty to sixty stamens and a few staminodes arranged around velvety carpels.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Dilleniales |
| Family: | Dilleniaceae |
| Genus: | Hibbertia |
| Species: | H. montana
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| Hibbertia montana | |
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Description
editHibbertia montana is an erect, straggling or sprawling, densely hairy shrub that typically grows to a height of 10–70 cm (3.9–27.6 in) high. The leaves are narrow oblong, 15–23 mm (0.59–0.91 in) long and 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) wide. The flowers are 20–35 mm (0.79–1.38 in) in diameter and are usually arranged on a peduncle, the five sepals densely silky-hairy. There are thirty to sixty stamens and a few staminodes arranged around the four or five velvety-hairy carpels. Flowering occurs from July to October.[2][3]
Taxonomy
editHibbertia montana was first formally described in 1845 by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in 1845 in Johann Georg Christian Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae from specimens collected near York in 1839.[4][5] The specific epithet (montana) means "pertaining to mountains".[6]
Distribution and habitat
editThis hibbertia grows near granite rocks and on hills on the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.[2][3]
Conservation status
editHibbertia montana is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Hibbertia montana". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ a b Wheeler, Judith R. (1984). "Taxonomic notes on some Western Australian species of Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae)". Nuytsia. 5 (1): 37–40. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ a b c "Hibbertia montana". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ von Steudel, Ernst G.; Lehmann, Johann G.C. (ed.) (1845). Plantae Preissianae. Vol. 1. Hamburg. p. 270. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
{{cite book}}:|first2=has generic name (help) - ^ "Hibbertia montana". APNI. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780958034180.