Hibbertia montana explained

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.

Description

Hibbertia montana is an erect, straggling or sprawling, densely hairy shrub that typically grows to a height of high. The leaves are narrow oblong, long and wide. The flowers are 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.[1]

Taxonomy

Hibbertia 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.[2] [3] The specific epithet (montana) means "pertaining to mountains".[4]

Distribution and habitat

This 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.

Conservation status

Hibbertia montana is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Wheeler . Judith R. . Taxonomic notes on some Western Australian species of Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae) . Nuytsia . 1984 . 5 . 1 . 37–40 . 21 December 2021.
  2. Book: von Steudel . Ernst G. . Lehmann . Johann G.C. (ed.) . Plantae Preissianae . 1 . 1845 . Hamburg . 270 . 22 December 2021.
  3. Web site: Hibbertia montana. APNI. 21 December 2021.
  4. Book: Sharr . Francis Aubi . George . Alex . Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings . 2019 . Four Gables Press . Kardinya, WA . 9780958034180 . 255 . 3rd.